what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD

[Greg Larkin]

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Jon Radel wrote:
>  On 9/29/10 4:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
>>     Yes!  changing the line in main.cf lets things get thru to my
>>     server cleanly, thanks for the tip.  I still don't understand
>>     what's wrong with my DNS files.  Hopefully, other folk on-list
>>     will see what's messed up.
> 
> Your domain registrar is having your dns delegated to 3 nameservers:
> 
> thought.org.        86400    IN    NS    ns1.thought.org.
> thought.org.        86400    IN    NS    ns1.silvertree.org.
> thought.org.        86400    IN    NS    ns1.twisted4life.com.
> ;; Received 142 bytes from 2001:500:48::1#53(b2.org.afilias-nst.org) in
> 32 ms
> 
> The last of the 3, ns1.twisted4life.com, is of the opinion that your
> domain doesn't exist, given that it has no authoritative data and
> refuses to do recursive lookups for the Internet at large.  I would
> suspect that this would result in the coming and going visibility that
> others have reported.  Basically, you don't exist a third of the time.
> 
> You need to make sure that all the nameservers you list with your
> registrar are actually admitting to your existence and are getting
> up-to-date data.  I recall having this conversation with you before.
> 

The first thing I would do is check the results of the DNS scan here
(http://www.dnscog.com/report/thought.org) and fix all of the listed
problems.  Keep iterating until the report is clean, or at least doesn't
have any red flags on it.  I've used this service successfully for a
while now to debug DNS problems.

Hope that helps,
Greg
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