Strange DNS issues

Virtualmin
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I have been running a CentOS server and BIND for about a year. Recently I have been having trouble with some domains and DNS records. I ran http://www.intodns.com/squirtyvision.com to check my top level domain and name servers, all is well. Another domain watercenter.org has been running fine for a year, but suddenly stopped working through Comcast and qwest, and is reporting numerous errors at intodns.com i.e. it reports that the DNS servers are not responding, that there is no A record for www, etc.

Everything seems fine in the DNS record, so I cannot figure out what might be causing the trouble.

$ttl 38400
@	IN	SOA	ns1.squirtyvision.com. root.ns1.squirtyvision.com. (
			1240622180
			10800
			3600
			604800
			38400 )
watercenter.org.	IN	NS	ns1.squirtyvision.com.
watercenter.org.	IN	A	67.23.5.122
www.watercenter.org.	IN	A	67.23.5.122
ftp.watercenter.org.	IN	A	67.23.5.122
m.watercenter.org.	IN	A	67.23.5.122
localhost.watercenter.org.	IN	A	127.0.0.1
webmail.watercenter.org.	IN	A	67.23.5.122
admin.watercenter.org.	IN	A	67.23.5.122
mail.watercenter.org.	IN	A	67.23.5.122
watercenter.org.	IN	MX	5 mail.watercenter.org.
watercenter.org.	IN	TXT	"v=spf1 a mx a:watercenter.org ip4:67.23.5.122 ?all"
watercenter.org.	IN	NS	ns2.squirtyvision.com.
watercenter.org.	IN	NS	ns3.squirtyvision.com.

Any suggestions?

-Jeff

2

Hi Jeff,

Hmm… is it possible it was just a temporary network problem?

When I look now, those domains aren’t showing any problems using the intodns.com site.

Are you still seeing issues?

-Eric

3

Thanks for checking Eric,

I believe it was a temporary corruption of the DNS records. All is working now, but I had to force the update to make it go away.

I added a third IP address, hostname, and nameserver to my server, then modified the records at godaddy to add the third nameserver. After that update, all was fixed.

I wish I could explain it, but there were problems with many of my domains for about a week. Mostly on comcast connections, but some on qwest as well. I use openDNS on my router with a qwest connection and did not experience any trouble, but my friends in Seattle had numerous problems on both qwest and comcast.

-Jeff