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[wildcard]

Hi,

I am just trying to wrap my head round using the DNS manager. I think I have everything set up properly, but my domain is no longer accessible. I'll freely admit that I am entirely new to all of this. This is what my zone file now looks like after having been generated with the manager:

Code: $TTL 86400
@   IN   SOA   ns1.linode.com. gregs.tcias.co.uk. (
               2007021421
               7200
               7200
               1209600
               86400
            )
      NS   ns1.linode.com.
      NS   ns2.linode.com.
         MX   10   mail.teacupinastorm.com.
@         A   70.85.129.121
www         CNAME   teacupinastorm.com.
gregs         CNAME   teacupinastorm.com.


I think the A record is wrong and should read:

Code: teacupinastorm.com.     IN      A       70.85.129.121

Then again there might be something else wrong with what I have entered.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Greg

[caker]

Hi Greg,

Both teacupinastorm.com and www.teacupinastorm.com resolve for me here. @ is a shortcut for the zone (teacupinastorm.com).

-Chris

[wildcard]

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Oddly enough when I try and browse to the website it says it can't find the server. BTW this is not a new set up, i.e. until I started playing with the DNS manager I could quite happily browse to my website.

I wouldn't need to make any change to my Linode would I? Or am I missing something else entirely?

[wildcard]

Actually when I do a dig from my end for say www.teacupinastorm.com I get this output:

Code: ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> www.teacupinastorm.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5004
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.teacupinastorm.com.                IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.teacupinastorm.com. 84329   IN      CNAME   teacupinastorm.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
teacupinastorm.com.     8730    IN      SOA     ns1.linode.com. gregs.tcias.co.uk. 2007021421 7200 7200 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 33 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 15 14:11:28 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 118

However when I do a dig for www.tcias.co.uk (another one of my domains) I get:

Code: ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> www.tcias.co.uk
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24075
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.tcias.co.uk.               IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.tcias.co.uk.        38400   IN      CNAME   tcias.co.uk.
tcias.co.uk.            38400   IN      A       70.85.129.121

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
tcias.co.uk.            38400   IN      NS      ns1.tcias.co.uk.
tcias.co.uk.            38400   IN      NS      ns2.tcias.co.uk.
tcias.co.uk.            38400   IN      NS      li12-121.members.linode.com.

;; Query time: 1641 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.1#53(192.168.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb 15 13:54:19 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 140

In the answer section the A name part pointing to the IP address is missing. Any ideas?

[caker]

OK, found and fixed a bug. ns1.linode.com had the correct info but not ns2.linode.com. Try now?

-Chris

[wildcard]

Yep that fixed it :)

Thanks!! Awesome and extremely fast support!