bind problem

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "List" <list at nchost.net>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: bind problem


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 8:12 PM
> Subject: Re: bind problem
>
>
>> List wrote:
>>> Weird. I have the zone entry for anonns.com binding to 
>>> advanced.anonns.com as follows:-
>>>
>>> ;Begin of file anonns.com
>>> $TTL 86400
>>> @       IN      SOA     advanced.anonns.com. postmaster.anonns.com. (
>>>                        2005040301
>>>                        3600
>>>                        7200
>>>                        864000
>>>                        86400 )
>>>
>>>                                IN      NS          advanced.anonns.com.
>>>                                IN      NS 
>>> brilliance.anonns.com.
>>>
>>>                                IN      MX     5    advanced.anonns.com.
>>>
>>>                                 IN      A           203.208.228.152
>>> ftp                             IN      A           203.208.228.152
>>> mail                           IN      A           203.208.228.152
>>> pop                           IN      A           203.208.228.152
>>> www                         IN      CNAME       anonns.com.
>>> advanced                   IN      A           203.208.228.152
>>> brilliance                    IN      A           203.208.228.153
>>>
>>> I am getting petty confused.
>>
>> It's difficult to diagnose the problems from here (both my work and home 
>> machines, on completely separate networks) because I'm getting a lot of 
>> DNS query timeouts from your servers (brilliance.anonns.com seems to be 
>> more reliable at the moment). It may be that it's a network connectivity 
>> issue that's underlying your problems. Is it possible for you to get an 
>> additional DNS server on a separate network to act as an additional 
>> secondary for your domains? Both of your current DNS servers are 
>> currently on the same network, which doesn't help reliability.
>>
>> The file above looks OK, though I'd be tempted to add a line:
>> $ORIGIN anonns.com.
>> at the top.
>
> The timeout might be due to the cable in APNC-2.
>
> Quoted Channel Asia News "Some Internet users in Singapore and other parts 
> of Asia may experience some delay when assessing websites hosted outside 
> of Singapore today. This is due to a cable failure in the Asia Pacific 
> Cable Network-2 (APCN-2) reported this morning."
>
> At the present, I do not have a 3rd machine which is on a seperate 
> network. I had added $ORIGIN anonns.com to the file and restarted named. I 
> will layoff for a while. Packing my stuff leaving town for a couple of 
> weeks. Will touch down and get hold of a computer with an internet access 
> in 8 hrs time and check back. By that time, i hope all the caching DNS 
> renew their information.
>
> Thanks alot

Update, i had also remove brilliance.* from the registrar for domain 
dwsmedia.info. Just to test whether advance.* is able to resolve and 
broadcast it.

regards