[aklug] Re: GCI and DNS

Sounds like the customer service folks gave you the wrong information.

Per the DNS guy:

.12 and .13 are VCNS-1 and VCNS-2 which are our resolvers, not our
authoritative name servers.

Customers should be using VANS-1 and VANS-2 (209.165.131.14 and .15)
with their registrars.=20

(iliamna and spurr are -really- old legacy names, fyi)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]=20
> On Behalf Of blair parker
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:55 AM
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] GCI and DNS
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> I'm having a couple of issues w/ GCI and one of my domain names... =20
> Perhaps somebody can help me understand why I am having these issues:
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> 1. I swapped cable modems last week, and GCI had to give me=20
> a new static IP. I then called tech support and had them=20
> change their DNS servers to route traffic for one of my=20
> domain names to my new IP addr. =20
> That worked just fine.
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> Then I realized that I had forgotten to ask GCI to change my 'other'=20
> domain name to point traffic to my same static IP addr. Now,=20
> I'm sure this will happen, in time, but just not yet. They=20
> have informed me that I need to change my Whois record (w/=20
> godaddy) to reflect two different nameservers. Originally,=20
> they were set to ILIAMNA.GCI.NET (209.165.131.14), and=20
> SPURR.GCI.NET (209.165.131.15). I'm supposed to change them=20
> to 209.165.131.12 and 209.165.131.13. Here's where I have problems.
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> According to GoDaddy, these two IP's (.12 and .13) are not=20
> 'registered'=20
> name servers, so I cannot change my registry. Ok. Now I'm=20
> feeling a little bit like the man-in-the-middle. Time for =20
> my second DNS issue...
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> 2. I have a couple of mail servers on different=20
> computers/domain_names. They both use RBL's to help reduce my spam. =20
> Starging on or about 08 February, I have been getting a lot=20
> of log entries on both email servers that look like the following:
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> 101.103.26.189.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org: RBL lookup error: Host=20
> or domain name not found. Name service error for=20
> name=3D101.103.26.189.sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org type=3DA: Host not=20
> found, try again
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> Apparently, I am supposed to set my router (w/ static IP's)=20
> up to use the .12 and .13 name servers. But regardless of=20
> what I use, I keep getting LOTS of the above log entries in=20
> my mail servers.
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> Can anybody explain to me GCI's nameserver 'philosophy' ?..
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> Why do they have at least two sets of nameservers (.12/.13=20
> and .14/.15), and at least three sets of domain names pointed=20
> at these two sets of nameservers (iliamna/spurr,=20
> vans-1/vans-2, and vcns-1/vcns-2) ?..
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> And why is one set of these nameservers not properly 'registered' ?..
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> Just trying to understand...
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> --
> Blair Parker
> Crazy Mountains Joint Venture
> 2000 E. Dowling Road, Suite 6
> Anchorage, AK 99507
> Voice: 907-561-0406
> Fax: 907-561-0788
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Received on Wed Feb 20 12:00:48 2008