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July 23 2005 at 11:14 PM
Jowel  (no login)

 
Hi guys, I think you are great here...and of cource I have a question about DNS...
So I have a domain name and I decided to change my Name Servers in the account from my Registrar to my onw DNS Server that is working on my web server. I set it up and I think it works fine, beacuse when I query in it from outside i got a regular respond. So my DNS Server is where is actually the web server. Now the configuration is like this: in my domain account "<mydomain>.org" I have only one Name Server - the value is "ns.<mydomain>.com" IP, the problem is that I have waited almost 60 hours and when I query for "<mydomain>.org" in http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/ I got no domain found. When I query for my Name Server I wrote "ns.<mydomain>.org" it resolves it as an A record (Does it resolve it as an NS???). My question is why it resolves my Name Server, but it doesn't resolve my Web Server - in fact why it doesn't refer to my Name Server and then my Name Server to respond. Or my problem is to wait more?....also last question why http://www.squish.net/dnscheck/ resolve my "ns.<mydomain>.org" as an A record but not as a NS record that refers to the ip of my web server?....Did I miss something in the configuration?...or not?

 
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Dave
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Re: DNS updates

July 24 2005, 2:02 AM 

It would help if you provided your real domain so that I could check it out.

 
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Jowel
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Re: DNS updates

July 24 2005, 10:26 AM 

<mydomain>.org is fmi-plovdiv.org

 
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salutation

September 1 2005, 5:29 PM 

yes i do you contact me in my mail BISCADIAW@hotmail.com

 
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Dave
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Re: DNS updates

July 24 2005, 3:53 PM 

Yes, this is a most unusual problem. First I punched your domain into a different DNS query tool that I prefer to use:

http://www.dollardns.net/cgi-bin/dnscrawler/index.pl?name=fmi-plovdiv.org&lr=6&submit=54

I saw that it didn't have NS records listed by the .ORG TLD. So then I punched it into a whois tool to see why:

http://whois.dollardns.net/domain.pl?query=fmi-plovdiv.org

And bingo I see that the status is 'INACTIVE'. I check the expiration date, and it appears to be ok. Then I check the list of name servers and there are only one. So I assume that the domain is listed as INACTIVE since you only have 1 name server. Try listing 2 of them to see if that solves the problem.

 
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Jowel
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Re: DNS updates

July 24 2005, 4:16 PM 

So with only one Name Server it cannot work???

 
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inactive dns

August 15 2005, 5:39 PM 

How can I activte the dns. Ismailelrayah

 
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Dave
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not here

September 2 2005, 4:00 PM 

Please ask in a separate topic, cause it makes things less confusing that way. Also be sure to specify your domain when you reask the question, cause there are more than one reason a domain may be listed as INACTIVE.

 
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Dave
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Re: DNS updates

July 24 2005, 4:55 PM 

Right, most registries require at least 2 name servers. I'm actually kind of surprised your registrar allowed you to only specify 1 name server. While I can't authoritively say the .ORG registry requires 2 name servers without looking it up, I consider it pretty likely.

 
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Jowel
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Re: DNS updates

July 24 2005, 11:51 PM 

But when I added my ISP dns, where there is a record for my domain...the registry moves my Name Server as secondary server. I want it to be primary.

 
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Dave
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Re: DNS updates

July 25 2005, 1:16 AM 

There is actually no distinction. Your primary and secondary dns servers have equal priority when resolving domains. The Tucows OpenSRS domain manager is just being obnoxious by saying one is a primary and the other a secondary.

 
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