Search Again: Re: failed secondary From: Jeff Folk Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2001 Time: 3:01:02 pm on 10/9/01 4:51 PM, Mitch Kahn wisely articulated: > We are swapping secondary services with another organization about seven > hundred miles from here (in New York City). They provide both primary and > secondary services for themselves on their own network. We provide an > additional secondary server. Their web servers are colocated elsewhere in NYC. > > Their connection is down. The web servers that are colocated are running and > have web access. BUT, their web sites had disappeared from the Internet even > though our Primary DNS (that provides their secondary service) is online and > working fine. > How long has their primary DNS connection been down? Longer than the value your secondary remains authoritative [usually 3-7 days]? > Then I created a DNS entry for their company domain in my > primary server (primary listing not secondary) and deleted the secondary > listing. All of the sudden all of their domains showed up except for a new one > for which I had no secondary entry. I entered it as a primary and it showed up > immediately as well. > > The important issue was to get them to show up a.s.a.p. I am puzzled as to why > they didn't show up automatically. > > My questions: > Since we have not modified our secondary server in months, what could have > caused the disappearance of their web sites from the Internet? What should we > look at for a fix? Why wouldn't any we sites show up until I moved their > company DNS listing from a secondary to a primary? And, why did that one > change make them all show up? > Since you entered the zone as a primary, your servers would be answering authoritatively as opposed to an expired secondary. If your servers are listed in the delegation as a name server, the site should be up and you can switch back to secondary when their DNS connection is working again. > Thanks in advance for any information. That's my take anyway, since it happened to me a couple months ago.

Messages In This Thread: failed secondary by Mitch Kahn on Oct 9, 2001 at 2:45:32 pm Re: failed secondary by Len Conrad on Oct 9, 2001 at 2:59:44 pm Re: failed secondary by Jeff Folk on Oct 9, 2001 at 3:01:02 pm Re: failed secondary by Mitch Kahn on Oct 10, 2001 at 10:12:04 am Re: failed secondary by Mitch Kahn on Oct 10, 2001 at 10:13:23 am Re: failed secondary by Men & Mice Support on Oct 10, 2001 at 11:55:53 am Re: failed secondary by Len Conrad on Oct 10, 2001 at 12:02:47 pm Re: failed secondary by Mitch Kahn on Oct 10, 2001 at 12:08:19 pm Re: failed secondary by Len Conrad on Oct 10, 2001 at 12:27:29 pm Re: failed secondary by Suzanne Swift on Oct 10, 2001 at 3:07:30 pm Re: failed secondary by Men & Mice Support on Oct 11, 2001 at 2:19:04 am