Michael C. Toren on 16 Oct 2004 17:40:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] DNS problem


On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 10:13:51AM -0700, Jon Nelson wrote:
> > Remember to increment the serial number when you make changes as well.
> 
> I didn't do that.  Will that prevent the changes from being propagated?

The serial number is used by secondary nameservers to detect when a change
has been made to a zone on the primary server.  If the serial number isn't
incremented, secondary servers won't know to pull a new copy of the zone
from the primary, and the world may see inconsistent domain data for your
domain depending on which nameserver they query.

If you're going to be handling your own DNS, I highly suggest reading
through the DNS-HOWTO, and perhaps picking up the O'Reilly _DNS & BIND_
book, both of which which cover these topics in much greater detail.

> > BTW, I am still not seeing either an A record or an MX record here.
>
> Yeah, me neither.

Are you making your changes on dns1.linuxnotes.net (66.33.243.69)?  That
nameservers still isn't answering queries for the linuxnotes.net domain.
It's entirely possible you have a typo in the zonefile, and your name
servers is refusing to load it.  Have a peek at the logfile to see if any
errors are being reported...

-mct

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