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[Richard Patterson]

Hi Andrew,

I have a similar setup to you, and do run some domains myself (including 
the nelug.org.uk domain)

The DNS system does require you to have (at least) 2 name servers for 
your domain, however there are a number of free secondary DNS services 
out there. I use twisted4life.com and secondary.org to provide my backup 
dns servers.

You will however require a static IP address for your primary name 
server (and other servers like MX).

Have you tried using nslookup localy to check that the domain works on 
your server?

One of the best domain name testers i have used is available at 
http://www.dnsreport.com/

If you provide us with the domain name you have changed, we'll be able 
to help more.

I can provide assistance to get it up and running if you wish. (I might 
even write something for the website on this topic)

Regards

Richard




Richard Patterson wrote:

> Sorry Andrew, Mailman has your wrong address...
> 
> Regards
> 
> Richard
> 
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> Subject:
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> From:
> "Andrew Hatch" <a.s.hatch at ntlworld.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:20:22 +0100
> To:
> "Nelug" <nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
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> To:
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> 
> Just enquiring to see if anybody has run a DNS service from their
> own Linux box?  My setup is as follows:
> 
>  [home lan]
>      |
> [debian linux]
>      |
>   [ ISP ]
> 
> Where my linux box is acting as firewall, web server, mail server
> and DNS server.  I recently experimented with changing a domain name
> I own to point to my linux box so I could do clever things with it.
> 
> My Domain Name manager interface REQUIRES me to specify two host
> names (not IP addresses) that are the primary and secondary DNS
> machines for the domain.  Using some jiggery pokery, I manage to get
> these to point to the correct name/IP.  However, despite leaving
> this for a long time (for the changes to propagate), my domain name
> doesn't appear to work.  nslookup/dig from various locations don't
> work.
> 
> Does anybody know how to debug the SERVFAIL problem I appear to
> have?  I've no idea how to work out where the problem is - the BIND
> daemon seems to be running fine - I use it for my home lan as a DNS
> cache - and it resolves my domain name correctly too for internal
> machines.  Externally, however, no joy.
> 
> Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andrew Hatch
> 
> 
> 
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