Issues Resolving Domain Names
 

Hello everyone.

I just loaded up another Fedora 8 loaded as Server. I have installed Webmin 1.401 and everything seems to be working but.. it will not resolve the domain names. It will reconized the ip address and hit the Apache server. But no domain name will resolve.

Can someone please shed some light on as to why. Or how to go about troubleshooting this.

Any information would be greatly appericated!

Richard

I don't quite follow the question - what has webmin got to do with the situation?

Can you please explain a bit more of what you are trying to do and what (or is not) happening

Can you show us your apache httpd.conf file and /etc/resolv.conf

Let me try to explain better. I have a Fedora 8 server. That I am running Webmin to handle the virtual server for domain hosting. (If i can get it to work.) It has an external IP and even though I configured it to a master domain. No domain names work only external IP address.

So say that i have xyz.com and it is all setup on the server. But if you goto xyz.com it will not pullup. But the static ip will show the apache default screen.

I hope this helps you help me.

Richard

Whats the domain you are looking to pull a web page from? Ping that domain, if it resolves properly then you have an apache config problem, if it doesnt resolve to the expected ip then you have a domain name problem.

In other words if xyz.com is a domain registered by you then it needs to resolve to your external ip.

hth

When I ping the domain from the hosting server, below is what I get. I have scanned the httpd.conf file and even copied one from another server and modded it to match this one. And still no go. That is why I am thinking it is a DNS issue. Do you agree?

[root@ns1 rfutrell]# ping proximitydesigns.com
PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.028 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.028 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.030 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.028 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.029 ms

Richard

Just seen this while doing a dig on my domain name.

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b1 <<>> proximitydesigns.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 48023
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;proximitydesigns.com. IN A