Hello,

I have a RedHat system running primary DNS for my domain eziekiel.com, well at least it use to. I have secondary backup DNS being done by easydns.com. Im running 9.2.1.

I have a firewall in front of this machine with static IP but have port forwarding setup & am confidant this is not the cause of problem. I see named running still as a process & dont see any errors in logs or on start of service. But checking, say online DNS checking at dnsreports.com i am getting multiple errors concerning my domain.
I used to see port 53 listening on say 127.0.0.1 & the internal IP it is runnig on 192.16.8.0.2 but now i dont see this.
Also if i do a nslookup of a domain i get the following

[root@echelon root]# dig mx www.iprimus.com.au

Server: 127.0.0.1
Address: 127.0.0.1#53

** server can't find www.iprimus.com.au: SERVFAIL


What can i send through to help anyone here resolve this for me..

Kind Regards

Andrew

Andrew

You seem to have two problems, your own DNS is'nt working and easydns.com does'nt appear to be working either

I removed your IP address

CheckDNS.NET is asking root servers about authoritative NS for domain
Got DNS list for 'eziekiel.com' from a.gtld-servers.net
Found NS record: ns.eziekiel.com[xxx.xxx.x.xxx], was resolved to IP address by a.gtld-servers.net
Found NS record: ns1.easydns.com[216.220.40.243], was resolved to IP address by a.gtld-servers.net
Found NS record: ns2.easydns.com[205.210.42.20], was resolved to IP address by a.gtld-servers.net
Found NS record: remote1.easydns.com[64.39.29.212], was resolved to IP address by a.gtld-servers.net
Found NS record: remote2.easydns.com[212.100.224.80], was resolved to IP address by a.gtld-servers.net
Found NS record: remote3.easydns.com[64.39.29.216], was resolved to IP address by a.gtld-servers.net
Domain has 6 DNS server(s)

CheckDNS.NET is verifying if NS are alive
Error fetching SOA from ns.eziekiel.com [xxx.xxx.x.xxx], request timed out. Probably DNS server is offline.
Tried to fetch SOA record for domain, but DNS server ns1.easydns.com [216.220.40.243] returned error code Server Failure
Tried to fetch SOA record for domain, but DNS server ns2.easydns.com [205.210.42.20] returned error code Server Failure
Tried to fetch SOA record for domain, but DNS server remote1.easydns.com [64.39.29.212] returned error code Server Failure
Tried to fetch SOA record for domain, but DNS server remote2.easydns.com [212.100.224.80] returned error code Server Failure
Tried to fetch SOA record for domain, but DNS server remote3.easydns.com [64.39.29.216] returned error code Server Failure
0 server(s) are alive
No DNS servers alive, tests stopped

Try opening a terminal enter as root
tail -f /var/log/messages

Then from another terminal restart named
/etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart

See if you get any error messages

Pete

Thanks for that info.

This is the output of message log after tailing it

Jun 28 17:15:27 echelon named: named shutdown succeeded
Jun 28 17:15:28 echelon named[18030]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named
Jun 28 17:15:28 echelon named[18030]: using 1 CPU
Jun 28 17:15:28 echelon named[18033]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Jun 28 17:15:28 echelon named[18033]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Jun 28 17:15:28 echelon named[18033]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Jun 28 17:15:28 echelon named[18033]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.0.2#53
Jun 28 17:15:28 echelon named[18033]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Jun 28 17:15:28 echelon named: named startup succeeded

jester_69

Unless you've edited your post it does'nt appear to be loading any zone files heres my result

Take a look at '/etc/named.conf' make sure the file names match the ones in /var/named

Otherwise either post the contents of /etc/named.conf and all the files in var/named or mail them to me

Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29198]: starting BIND 9.2.1 -u named
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29198]: using 2 CPUs
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named: named startup succeeded
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.0.3#53
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: zone 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA/IN: loaded serial 2004062601
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: zone 0.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA/IN: loaded serial 2004062601
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 2004062601Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: zone mydomain.net/IN: loaded serial 2004062601
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: zone mydomain.co.uk/IN: loaded serial 2004062601
Jun 28 08:29:32 server named[29200]: running

Pete