Re: [PLUG] eMail Delivery/Domain Name Problem

[Lee Marzke <lee@marzke.net>]

Are you sure your records use  dns1.nerdworld.com  and it is not 
misspelled anywhere ?

I got the afalias-  response with I typed  dig dns1.nerTworld.com ,  but 
not when spelled correctly

Lee


On 01/07/2011 05:52 AM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> Darren, this is fantastic info, but I'm not sure how to use it.
>
> NerdWorld.org's DNS is hosted on ZoneEdit.com.   All the IP's point to my
> single valid IP of 71.22.6.96.   Both of their name servers are listed
> properly in my Register.com domain registration.
>
> The IP's listed in b0.org.afalias-nst.org are not mine.  (although one of them
> looks familiar.)
>
>
> Since I have a "Dynamic" IP, it has changed once or twice over the years, but
> it has been stable for 2+ years, so any cache would have long-since been
> flushed.
>
>
>
> On Thursday 06 January 2011 9:59:02 pm Darren Nickerson wrote:
> > Seems to me you have some DNS inconsistencies. Whois reports your
> > nameservers for chescoliberty.org as:
> >
> > 	Name Server:DNS2.NERDWORLD.ORG
> > 	Name Server:DNS1.NERDWORLD.ORG
> >
> > In  your data for chescoliberty.org (which I was able to transfer from
> > 71.224.6.96) you have the following:
> >
> > 	;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> > 	DNS1.NerdWorld.org.	7200	IN	A	71.224.6.96
> > 	DNS2.NerdWorld.org.	7200	IN	A	71.224.6.96
> >
> >
> > HOWEVER, if you follow the DNS delegation for these nerworld.org hosts from
> > the .org TLD, it looks like:
> >
> > darren:~ darren$ dig org ns
> >
> > ;<<>>  DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2<<>>  org ns
> > ;; global options: +cmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58961
> > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 6, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> >
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;org.				IN	NS
> >
> > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> > org.			86400	IN	NS	a0.org.afilias-nst.info.
> > org.			86400	IN	NS	a2.org.afilias-nst.info.
> > org.			86400	IN	NS	b0.org.afilias-nst.org.
> > org.			86400	IN	NS	b2.org.afilias-nst.org.
> > org.			86400	IN	NS	c0.org.afilias-nst.info.
> > org.			86400	IN	NS	d0.org.afilias-nst.org.
> >
> > ;; Query time: 37 msec
> > ;; SERVER: 10.0.20.1#53(10.0.20.1)
> > ;; WHEN: Thu Jan  6 21:45:36 2011
> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 159
> >
> >
> > Choosing one of these nameservers at random, querying them for your zone's
> > nameservers, we get:
> >
> >
> > darren:~ darren$ dig @b0.org.afilias-nst.org chescoliberty.org ns
> >
> > ;<<>>  DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2<<>>  @b0.org.afilias-nst.org chescoliberty.org ns
> > ; (1 server found)
> > ;; global options: +cmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27591
> > ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
> > ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
> >
> > ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> > ;chescoliberty.org.		IN	NS
> >
> > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> > chescoliberty.org.	86400	IN	NS	dns1.nerdworld.org.
> > chescoliberty.org.	86400	IN	NS	dns2.nerdworld.org.
> >
> > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> > dns1.nerdworld.org.	86400	IN	A	71.224.4.252
> > dns2.nerdworld.org.	86400	IN	A	206.99.145.1
> >
> > ;; Query time: 102 msec
> > ;; SERVER: 199.19.54.1#53(199.19.54.1)
> > ;; WHEN: Thu Jan  6 21:46:08 2011
> > ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 115
> >
> >
> > The problem is in the dns1.nerdworld.org and dns2 records above in bold ...
> > these are called glue records and it could be you have changed them
> > recently and they have not propagated yet, or it could be you need to fix
> > your DNS for nerdworld.org, because they don't match the information we
> > saw earlier, and they also don't respond:
> >
> > darren:~ darren$ dig @206.99.145.1 chescoliberty.org ns
> >
> > ;<<>>  DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2<<>>  @206.99.145.1 chescoliberty.org ns
> > ; (1 server found)
> > ;; global options: +cmd
> > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> > darren:~ darren$ dig @71.224.4.252 chescoliberty.org ns
> >
> > ;<<>>  DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2<<>>  @71.224.4.252 chescoliberty.org ns
> > ; (1 server found)
> > ;; global options: +cmd
> > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> > darren:~ darren$
> >
> > Hope that helps!
> >
> > -d
> >
> > On Jan 6, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> > > I've got a weird eMail delivery problem that I cannot figure out.  Could
> > > somebody please offer some asistance?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > __SOME__ people (notably yahoo) cannot send eMail to anyone at this
> > > domain. It times out with a "domain not known" error:

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