dns problem

[K.C. Chan]

All, I am getting this error " ** server can't find mail.digitalmetal.com.: SERVFAIL". when doing an nslookup for mail.digitalmetal.com, but after restarting named the lookup succeed. Any idea? Thanks.

[Federico Joselevich]

what's on your resolv.conf file? Perhaps you nslookup is just using your own server to resolve names and when you restart it (actualy, when you start it), it starts resolving.

Does it happens just with mail.digitalmetal.com or is the same with other servers?

[Jeffrey S. Sims]

I would have to say it is either your resolv.conf or you didn't have the service started in the first place. If you are sure neither of these is the problem the check your dns cache file and make sure it is current.

[K.C. Chan]

resolv.conf is find and the service is started bec. I can resolved such address as www.yahoo.com, msn.com, and othters. It only happen on mail.digitalmetal.com.

[Mark Fenton]

Michael -- so your question is why does your name server stop responding for digitalmetal.com? (I'm assuming that you are the name server for digitalmetal.com).

For the answer to that you'll have to dig into the logs of what named is doing. Maybe it would be instructive to run named with debugging turned on for a while to see where it's hanging up.

named -d

Mark

[K.C. Chan]

No, I am not an authorative named server for mail.digitalmetal.com, here's what the output looks like when doing "nslookup -sil mail.digitalmetal.com" via my named server:
Server: nameserver
Address: xx.xx.xx.xx#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: mail.digitalmetal.com
Address: 209.15.2.80

any idea why sometimes it yields, can't find ...: SERVFAIL error messages until named is restarted?

[Chris Dick]

Hello Michael,

May I ask what you are doing asking questions about mail.digitalmetal.com? You are not part of the DigitalMetal team, and I've never heard of your at our hosting company.

Even though this is almost 6 months after the fact, I urge you to reply.

Chris
DigitalMetal.com

[K.C. Chan]

Chris,
The reason I did responds is bec. I haven't check back for a while bec. I am too busy handling other projects at work.

[K.C. Chan]

No, I am not an authorative dns server for digitalmetal.com, however our internal dns server sometimes can not resolve "mail.digitalmetal.com." It just stop returning non-authorative query results. But If I restarted my dns server, it is able to returns the name lookup (non-authorative offcourse). I would like to know why it stops working for mail.digitalmetal.com? Thanks.

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

SERVFAIL message means there is some configuration problem in data files or named.conf of your DNS server.

Check the files first. Also enable debugging option in named daemon to find out the exact problem.

Does named process always runs or it dies ?
#ps -ef | grep named | grep -v named

I am asking this because you are saying that after restarting named , it works fine.

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Chris Dick]

Michael,

Ok, thanks, but why are you trying to resolve mail.digitalmetal.com? The site's simply a web-mail interface. I'm just curious that's all, 'cause this forum was listed in a google.com inquiry, and I've had mail hacks before.

Chris
www.digitalmetal.com

[Doug Morgan_2]

Hi, I just found this form, and I have been having this same problem for over a year now.
I am running bind 9.1.0, and the domains that return SERVFAIL seem to change. It is not always the same domain, but after a restart of named, the domain that failed now is working.
When this does happen, other domains will still resolve, and named is running. As anyone found a answer to this yet?

[Steven E. Protter]

FYI

The domain in question is being properly seviced.

traceroute to mail.digitalmetal.com (209.15.2.80), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.1.10.1 (10.1.10.1) 2.154 ms 0.953 ms 0.933 ms
2 ntwhpop1.hosting4u.net (209.15.2.80) 1.240 ms 2.453 ms 1.123 ms


We are obviously outside your environment.

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