Subject: Re: Notice: GCI DNS servers changing- having problems
From: James Dory (jdory@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jan 07 2004 - 08:52:38 AKST
I decided to change the dns numbers in our mail server yesterday and now
I can't receive mail for our lan. I've changed them back to the old ones
today and still no mail.
The domain is nomealaska.org and we are hosted on www.register.com. When
doing a dnsreport.com on nomealaska.org all kinds of bad stuff shows up.
No mx records, no nameservers, etc. On my server (a cobalt raq using
GUI) all I had changed was the network DNS numbers, nothing more. Since
changing back to the old ones, I've restarted sendmail, restarted inetd,
and then finally rebooted.
As an aside, when you go to the website www.gci.net they give different
DNS nameservers than what is listed below. The ones listed below are the
same ones that show up on dnsreport.com. So should one use these or the
ones that GCI is saying to use on gci.net?
Not having mail for an organization is stress producing. Any help would
be appreciated. (We can send mail through smtp.gci.net).
Cheers, Jim
Leif Sawyer wrote:
>Dee replied to:
>
>
>>Michael Gillson, whom on Thu, 2003-12-18 at 07:25, asked:
>>
>>
>>>Can we start using the new DNS servers now?
>>>
>>>
>>[...]
>># dig ns gci.net
>>[...]
>>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>>gci.net. 172800 IN NS vans-1.gci.net.
>>gci.net. 172800 IN NS vans-2.gci.net.
>>[...]
>># dnsip vans-1.gci.net
>>209.165.131.14
>># dnsip vans-2.gci.net
>>209.165.131.15
>>
>>So I'd say no :-)
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>Actually, you can use the new DNS servers today:
>
> Primary DNS: vcns-1.gci.net, 209.165.131.12
> Secondary DNS: vcns-2.gci.net, 209.165.131.13
>
>
>Those are the caching name servers for client access. They
>will allow recursive DNS queries.
>
>What you've discovered, Dee, are the authoritative name servers
>for GCI.Net, which will resolve within the authoritative space,
>but not allow recursive queries.
>
>It's a bit of a different setup than most are used to, but
>one that allows for much more scalability and resiliency.
>
>Hope this clears up any confusion.
>
>
>Leif
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