Search Again: Re: failed secondary From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, October 11, 2001 Time: 2:19:04 am The relevant number is the Expire field, which you currently have set to 1 week. The "300" number mentioned in the DNS Expert report is from your load balance record - it has a TTL of 300 seconds, or 5 minutes. This is normal for load balance records, but DNS Expert doesn't know that. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 6:05 PM +0800 10/10/01, Suzanne Swift wrote: >This report is REALLY helpful. > >I am the other half of this issue. Mitch and I are serving as backup DNS >for each other. Is it possible that my TTL settings were set too low so >that the record expired on Mitch's machine before it could start serving my >domains when my DNS server went off-line? > >Regards, >Suzanne > >P.S. Though the report says they were 300, they were actually 3600. > > > >>infoedg.com > >>boydlighting.com > >>officeinteriorsltd.com > >>plus about 45 others > >> > >>Their DNS servers are back up now, but I still would like to know why none > >>of the sites showed up until I moved infoedg.com from secondary on my > >>server to primary. Then all of the sites appeared. > > > >still got some ns errors there at 14:20 cst: > > > > DNS Expert > > Detailed Report for infoedg.com > > > >2001-10-10, 14:16, using the analysis setting "Thorough" > >====================================================================== > > > >Information > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Serial number: 2001091703 > >Primary name server: ns1.infoedg.com. > >Primary mail server: mail.infoedg.com. > >Number of records: 8 (3 NS, 1 MX, 4 A, 0 CNAME, 0 PTR, 0 Other) > > > >Errors > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >o The server "ns2.infoedg.com." did not reply > > The server "ns2.infoedg.com." did not reply when it was queried > > for the name "infoedg.com.". This indicates that the server is > > not running, or it is currently unreachable. > > > >o Non-authoritative data received from the server "ns1.madness.net." > > The server "ns1.madness.net." is listed as being authoritative > > for the domain, but it does not contain authoritative data for it. > > > > > >o There is no PTR record for the host "ns1.infoedg.com." > > There is no PTR record available for the host "ns1.infoedg.com." > > which has the IP address 63.220.247.78. > > > > > >Warnings > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >o The TTL value 300, in the NS record "www.infoedg.com." is rather low > > The TTL value 300, used in the NS record "www.infoedg.com.", is > > unusually low. The TTL value should be within the range 3600 - > > 172800. > > > > > > > > DNS Expert > > Detailed Report for boydlighting.com > > > >2001-10-10, 14:17, using the analysis setting "Thorough" > >====================================================================== > > > >Information > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Serial number: 2001091302 > >Primary name server: ns1.infoedg.com. > >Primary mail server: mail.boydlighting.com. > >Number of records: 7 (2 NS, 1 MX, 3 A, 1 CNAME, 0 PTR, 0 Other) > > > >Errors > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >o Non-authoritative data received from the server "ns1.madness.net." > > The server "ns1.madness.net." is listed as being authoritative > > for the domain, but it does not contain authoritative data for it. > > > >o There is no PTR record for the host "mail.boydlighting.com." > > There is no PTR record available for the host > > "mail.boydlighting.com." which has the IP address 63.119.220.2. > > > >o There is no PTR record for the host "citrix.boydlighting.com." > > There is no PTR record available for the host > > "citrix.boydlighting.com." which has the IP address 63.119.220.3. > > > >o There is no PTR record for the host "boydlighting.com." > > There is no PTR record available for the host "boydlighting.com." > > which has the IP address 63.220.247.67. > > > > > > DNS Expert > > Detailed Report for officeinteriorsltd.com > > > >2001-10-10, 14:17, using the analysis setting "Thorough" > >====================================================================== > > > >Information > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Serial number: 2001091302 > >Primary name server: ns1.infoedg.com. > >Primary mail server: N/A > >Number of records: 4 (2 NS, 0 MX, 1 A, 1 CNAME, 0 PTR, 0 Other) > > > >Errors > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >o Non-authoritative data received from the server "ns1.madness.net." > > The server "ns1.madness.net." is listed as being authoritative > > for the domain, but it does not contain authoritative data for it. > > > >o There are no MX records for the zone > > The zone contains no MX records for the zone itself. This will > > cause delivery problems for mail sent to any account of the form > > user@zone. Every zone for which mail delivery is desired should > > contain at least one MX record. > > > >o Unable to verify the hostmaster address > > "hostmaster@officeinteriorsltd.com" because no mail servers answered. > > It was not possible to verify the hostmaster address > > "hostmaster@officeinteriorsltd.com" because none of the mail > > servers that process mail for the domain answered. > > > >Len > > > > > > > >___________________________________________________________________ > > > >Men & Mice: QuickDNS - DNS Expert - DNS Training - DNS Consulting > >DNS Classes: Toronto 10/18-19, Fairfax VA 10/35-26, Frankfurt 11/21-23 > >London 11/26-28, Maidenhead 10/31-11/2 > >http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training

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