I'm afraid I don't really know what the following error message means..
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Security: Server NS.NTIHOSTING.com
(128.121.4.3) is recursive
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Should I be contacting my hosting company about this? My website 'travellerspoint.com' has had a little too much downtime for my liking and if it is likely due to an error like this, I would like to chase it up with them.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Peter Daams
p.s. I would love to see an FAQ on your site regarding error messages for dummies like me :-)
Sorry, I just noticed someone else already had this question..
I have another though. I did an NS lookup on NS.NTIHOSTING.NET and it came up with the following:
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Security: Server NS.NTIHOSTING.COM (128.121.4.3) is recursive
Error: No such domain
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Is the error ' no such domain' worth being worried about?
You are looking for nameservers responsible for the zone ns.ntihosting.com - this is not a zone, and so you get no such domain.
You probably wanted to do an NS lookup for ntihosting.com, although this is not a query that happens in the real-world. This would tell you what the parent zones delegate to - the nameservers for ntihosting.com itself would not be contacted.
99% of resolving is for converting a name to an IP address. The only record of importance for this activity is an A record lookup. During an A record lookup NS records (delegations) and CNAMEs (aliases) encountered by dnscheck will be automatically dealt with.
My advice is that these two queries are the only ones you should care about:
a) MX lookup on email domain, followed by A record lookup on the results.
b) A lookup on host names, e.g. web site addresses.
So this probably means:
MX lookup for ntihosting.com
A lookup for (whatever the MX lookup returned)
A lookup for www.ntihosting.com
