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OPENSTEP
The One
Joined: May 25, 2003
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Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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 Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:14 am Post subject: More DNS oddness |
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The DNS flaked out yesterday again for some reason and I'll be doing work on that machine this weekend now that I'm back home again  This caused trinity, www, etc. to be down for a while. I just finished configuring an updated secondary DNS and the address change should be propogating to the TLD servers over the process of the day. Once it's through trinity should continue to be accessible even if the main DNS server goes batty. Sorry for the downtime, and thakns to my friend for rebooting it while I was away!
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OPENSTEP
The One
Joined: May 25, 2003
Posts: 4752
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:06 am Post subject: Favour? |
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As a small favour, could some folk outside the US open a Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) and type the following:
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nslookup secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
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That is the machine that I've configured to be our fallback DNS server for when the primary is offline due to DoS attacks. If the result of the above command says "206.72.79.247" on the last "Address:" line, please let me know a "yes" or a "no". Before it may have been "24.7....." something or other.
For those who don't know, nslookup will translate a symbolic name (such as www.neooffice.org) into the numeric IP4 address needed to locate the machine on the Internet. This process is handled by Verisign and other TLD (top level domain) servers and changes to the root information really need 1-2 days to move across the world.
I don't want to take the primary DNS offline for its upgrade until the secondary is happily replying to keep trinity online
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Samwise
Captain Naiobi
Joined: Apr 25, 2006
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Location: Montpellier, France
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: |
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From Switzerland : no. Instead I get 24.7 etc.
But I always have trouble with Trinity and anoncvs so it may also be something on my end (?) ... |
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OPENSTEP
The One
Joined: May 25, 2003
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Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:22 am Post subject: |
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No, it's not on your end. It just takes time for all DNSs to sync. Making a change at the top level just takes a long time to propogate to the clients . Most of the time the changes are local to our domain, but this one is different as I'm trying to add a new global server. While some of the servers I've checked here in California have synced to my changes (did them last morning, near 24 hrs. ago) it may be up to 3 days until the world gets the change 
Thanks for the 411 so I'll put off the upgrade until Sunday at the latest! 
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Glenner
Oracle
Joined: Feb 03, 2004
Posts: 241
Location: Scotland
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:22 am Post subject: |
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From UK
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
Address: 206.72.79.247 |
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:23 am Post subject: |
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Strange things happen:
| Code: | pBook:~/bin martin$ ping secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
PING secondary.dashboardbuddha.com (206.72.79.247): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 206.72.79.247: icmp_seq=1 ttl=245 time=489.890 ms
64 bytes from 206.72.79.247: icmp_seq=2 ttl=245 time=822.832 ms
64 bytes from 206.72.79.247: icmp_seq=3 ttl=245 time=933.365 ms
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| Code: | pBook:~/bin martin$ nslookup secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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| Code: | pBook:~/bin martin$ dig secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
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I am in Berlin, Germany & connected to T-Online (Deutsche Telekom). Loading http://secondary.dashboardbuddha.com/ into the browser brought trinity home. Any other help needed?
Martin |
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OPENSTEP
The One
Joined: May 25, 2003
Posts: 4752
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:26 am Post subject: |
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OK, what I suspect you're seeing is a timeout. For better or for worse, right now I'm downloading the OOoCon videocasts onto the neo domain machines so the lack of bandwidth may be affecting your DNS lookup
Conclusion: I need to get a bandwidth shaping filter on the overall connection (or a second connection).
The good news, however, is that you're seeing that 247 address, so it is beginning to move outside the US...yay!!! Network Solutions has a really odd online interface, so I'm glad that it seems that my changes were correct.
Thanks so much for checking it out!
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amayze
The Merovingian
Joined: Oct 24, 2005
Posts: 561
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:28 am Post subject: |
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| Glenner wrote: | From UK
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
Address: 206.72.79.247 |
Ditto for me. (Though I am only a few miles away!)
Andy |
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LemonAid
The Anomaly
Joined: Nov 21, 2005
Posts: 1285
Location: Witless Protection Program
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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Double checking from Sandy Eago, CA - USA
| Code: | nslookup secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
Server: 66.75.164.90
Address: 66.75.164.90#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
Address: 206.72.79.247 |
| Code: | dig secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16683
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;secondary.dashboardbuddha.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
secondary.dashboardbuddha.com. 57436 IN A 24.7.220.15
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
dashboardbuddha.com. 57436 IN NS secondary.dashboardbuddha.com.
dashboardbuddha.com. 57436 IN NS PRIMARY.dashboardbuddha.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
PRIMARY.dashboardbuddha.com. 57436 IN A 206.72.79.240
;; Query time: 48 msec
;; SERVER: 66.75.164.90#53(66.75.164.90)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 16 13:04:54 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 115
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sardisson
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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From DC/Earthlink:
| nslookup wrote: | Server: 207.69.188.185
Address: 207.69.188.185#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
Address: 24.7.220.15 |
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ovvldc
Captain Naiobi
Joined: Sep 13, 2004
Posts: 2352
Location: Zürich, CH
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| Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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From Utrecht, NL.
| Quote: | ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
secondary.dashboardbuddha.com. 168993 IN A 206.72.79.247
;; Query time: 59 msec
;; SERVER: 10.0.0.2#53(10.0.0.2)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 17 00:07:59 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63 |
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jgd
Agent Smith
Joined: Feb 27, 2005
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Location: France
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 1:42 am Post subject: |
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From France
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; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> secondary.dashboardbuddha.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53214
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;secondary.dashboardbuddha.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
secondary.dashboardbuddha.com. 172800 IN A 206.72.79.247
;; Query time: 260 msec
;; SERVER: 212.27.53.252#53(212.27.53.252)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 17 10:36:27 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 63
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OPENSTEP
The One
Joined: May 25, 2003
Posts: 4752
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
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| Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 6:52 am Post subject: |
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Cool! Since it seems everything has gone well I'll look into doing the server update later on today. Stay tuned
ed |
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