Diagnosing DNS problems...?

[Mike Garfias]

Looks good to me.

If your DNS is internet facing, I find these two sites to be quite useful:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/
http://www.dnsreport.com/


jon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> Howdy folks...
> 
> So, if ya haven't guess, I get to play sysadmin this week as we're 
> trying to get a new project off the ground. Which is fun. However, as a 
> web developer, I'm wandering into areas that I haven't really explored...
> 
> So... here's where I'm at: I'm trying to get mydns up and running on my 
> ubuntu box. No problems there.... however, I'm not really clear on how 
> to set up individual records and get 'em to resolve correctly.
> 
> What's the best way to diagnose dns setup problems? Is there a good 
> tutorial for working through these things?
> 
> So... let's say I want blah.huggabear.com to resolve to 69.55.220.101, 
> does this dig response look right?
> 
> 
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> blah.huggabear.com
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 23416
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;blah.huggabear.com.            IN      A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> blah.huggabear.com.     85601   IN      A       69.55.220.101
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> huggabear.com.          160678  IN      NS      ns2.tdnameservers.com.
> huggabear.com.          160678  IN      NS      ns1.tdnameservers.com.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns1.tdnameservers.com.  160664  IN      A       69.50.220.101
> 
> ;; Query time: 164 msec
> ;; SERVER: 216.87.64.2#53(216.87.64.2)
> ;; WHEN: Fri May 26 10:08:57 2006
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 118
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks folks...
> 
>     -- jon
> 
> 
> ---------
> jon roig
> web developer
> http://jonroig.com
> 
> 
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