[IndiChix] Fwd: [Chapters] DNS issue, was... floss events/confs

vid vid at svaksha.com
Thu Jun 25 11:32:26 UTC 2009


First, in the series of responses to the DNS issue.


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From: Mary Gardiner <mary at puzzling.org>
Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:31
Subject: Re: [Chapters] DNS issue, was... [IndiChix] floss events/confs
To: Volunteers <volunteers at linuxchix.org>, chapters at linuxchix.org


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009, vid wrote:
> Ketan, here is what i got on a nslookup.
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:   india.linuxchix.org
> Address: 64.13.203.77
>
> Can you explain this ? I'm CC'ing the volunteers and chapters list so
> they can help us out.

It's not clear to me how much you know about the two nameservers, so the below
may contain info you know already.

There are two nameservers for linuxchix.org:

   $ dig -t ns linuxchix.org
   [...]
   ;; ANSWER SECTION:
   linuxchix.org.              72041   IN      NS      ns2.demandspace.com.
   linuxchix.org.              72041   IN      NS      ns0.linuxchix.org.

Both of those are regarded as equally correct sources of information about
"linuxchix.org" (and subdomains). It is common (required, in fact) for there to
be some redundancy in DNS like this.

ns0.linuxchix.org knows about india.linuxchix.org:

   $ dig india.linuxchix.org @ns0.linuxchix.org.
   [...]
   ;; ANSWER SECTION:
   india.linuxchix.org.        86400   IN      A       64.13.203.77

ns2.demandspace.com does not (the command "dig india.linuxchix.org
@ns2.demandspace.com." doesn't return an ANSWER SECTION, which is what is meant
by "not found")

This will mean continual intermittant errors looking up india.linuxchix.org.
This needs to be fixed by the admins of either ns0.linuxchix.org. or
ns2.demandspace.com., possibly both. The nameservers should be returning
consistent information for the domain to work correctly.

-Mary
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