[KLUG Members] unable to get dns lookup on a couple sites

Steve Spear members@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 24 Sep 2002 18:34:32 -0400


This web site is very useful for checking dns info.
After you make a change on your dns you can check this site after a few
hours and it gives some good info.

http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=knowledgenet.com

Rusty Yonkers wrote:

> on checking knowledgenet.com whois gets me nothing at all.... and dig
> responds with connection timed out; no servers can be reached
>
> Dig works fine for things like www.novell.com and www.yahoo.com.
>
> --- Buist Justin <jbuist@gsite.com> wrote:
> > Run a 'whois' on the domains to determine the authoritative DNS
> > servers for them first.. then verify that BIND is actually running
> > on the given IPs, then verify that named.conf is setup to let bind
> > know that it owns that domain.
> >
> > That'd be my first list of stuff to do, anyway.
> >
> > Justin Buist
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rusty Yonkers [mailto:therustycook@yahoo.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:16 PM
> > > To: Linux Usersgroup
> > > Subject: [KLUG Members] unable to get dns lookup on a couple
> > sites
> > >
> > >
> > > There are a couple of sites that we are not able to get a DNS
> > lookup.
> > >  Most everything is working just peachy but when we try to go to
> > > three different sites we cannot do a lookup.  Any idea what might
> > be
> > > causing this or what to look at?  Both dig and nslookup come up
> > > totally blank when trying to get info on these.  I am using bind
> > 8.
> > >
> > >
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> Rusty Yonkers
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> -----------------------------------------
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