[BlueOnyx:06387] Re: Disappearing DNS

[Gerald Waugh]

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 12:20 -0600, Alan Kline wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Yes, it's the server we worked on last week, and DNS is enabled. The 
> nslookup returns:
> 
> [root at www /]# nslookup
>  > server xxx.67.248.202
> Default server: xxx.67.248.202
> Address: xxx.67.248.202#53
>  > snugglebunny.us
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> 
> Using nslookup in non-interactive mode returns:
> 
> [root at www /]# nslookup xxx.67.248.202
> Server:         xxx.77.144.250
> Address:        xxx.77.144.250#53
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> 202.248.67.208.in-addr.arpa     name = vm329.virtbiz.com.
> 
> Authoritative answers can be found from: (...etc)
> 
> One difference is that the new box is vm329a--could this make a difference?
> 
> Under TCP/IP settings, I had changed the host and domain name to 
> www.snugglebunny.us from vm329a.virtbiz.com...but again, as of 11:00 
> last night, everything was working fine. I went to bed last night, and 
> this morning, everything had stopped...
> 
> One other question: In the TCP/IP section, the primary interface is 
> shown as xxx.67.248.206, when the server gateway is xxx.67.248.201. Does 
> this make a difference?
> 

I find best to use dig for nameserver test
use
  dig @some.nameserver.com some.domain.com

Gerald