Good morning thanks for helping.

When I use kloth or digwebinterface against my dns server I get connection timed out, or servfail error messages. Here is the servfail message I get when I dig from the server itself.

dig dns1.snap.lib.ca.us

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> dns1.snap.lib.ca.us
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 12875
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dns1.snap.lib.ca.us. IN A

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Nov 19 12:13:00 2013
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 37

This particular server has been up and running/functioning for years. We were alerted by the .US registrar in October (didn't receive the email) and today they parked the domain and sent another email that we received. Our domain is currently parked, and the linux admin retired and I'm trying to fumble my way through this. Any help would be super appreciated.

It works fine from here:

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Bathory

I seem to be able to dig it from the server itself now, and I think digwebinterface is working, but kloth isn't. Neustar parked our domain today, and said they couldn't get requests from our server since before Oct. 11th.

I'll keep investigating and see what I can see. Thanks for looking into this though.

According to this your server didn't respond, so check if there is a firewall blocking port 53 udp
From here I too get a SERVFAIL if I use your dns to resolve your domain. So you may post the zone file and named.conf to see if there is something wrong.

//
// named.conf for Red Hat master dns server
//

options {
version "Bind";
directory "/var/named";
allow-transfer { 192.168.90.0/24; localhost; };
recursion no;
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
};

//
// a master name server
//
controls {
inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; };
};

zone "snap.lib.ca.us" IN {
type master;
file "db.hosts";
};

zone "solano.lib.ca.us" IN {
type master;
file "db.libus";
};

zone "solanolibrary.com" IN {
type master;
file "db.libcom";
};

zone "solanocountylibrary.com" IN {
type master;
file "db.sclcom";
};

zone "solanolibrary.net" IN {
type master;
file "db.libnet";
};

zone "solanolibrary.org" IN {
type master;
file "db.liborg";
};

zone "solanocountylibrary.org" IN {
type master;
file "db.sclcom";
};

zone "213.127.66.in-addr-arpa" IN {
type master;
file "/db.66.127.213";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" IN {
type master;
file "named.local";
allow-update { none; };
};

zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};

include "/etc/rndc.key";



And Zone file:

;
; Authoritative data for snap.lib.ca.us
;
snap.lib.ca.us. IN SOA soar.snap.lib.ca.us. postmaster.soar.snap.lib.ca.us. (
2013062601 ; Serial number
10800 ; Refresh
3600 ; Retry
604800 ; Expire
17280 ) ; Default time-to-live
; Name Servers
;
snap.lib.ca.us. IN A 66.127.213.248
IN NS soar.snap.lib.ca.us.
IN NS dns1.snap.lib.ca.us.
;
; Mail Exchangers
;
snap.lib.ca.us. IN MX 10 mail1.snap.lib.ca.us.
snap.lib.ca.us. IN MX 15 mailhost.snap.lib.ca.us.
;
snap.lib.ca.us. IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ptr ~all"
; Host Information
;
;soar IN HINFO SUN SPARC Ultra UNIX
;
; Aliases
;
www IN CNAME soar
snapweb IN CNAME starship
;
; Address Records (net-1)
;
soar IN A 66.127.213.248
www IN A 66.127.213.248
mailhost IN A 66.127.213.225
mail1 IN A 66.127.213.225
ecard IN A 66.127.213.249
ecarddev IN A 66.127.213.249
dns1 IN A 66.127.213.223
m IN A 66.127.213.249
mtest IN A 66.127.213.249
carlweb IN A 66.127.213.235
ls2pac IN A 66.127.213.237
libonline IN A 66.127.213.190
mjsdev IN A 66.127.213.166




Thanks again for the help.

- John

Hi,

You have 2 www records. Comment out or remove the line:
Also there is no A record for the starship host, so better remove the 2nd CNAME also