[TriLUG] Ugh... More DNS questions

[Igor Partola via TriLUG]

Additionally, you can verify that the nameservers are correct by doing the
following:

    whois undecidedgames.net | grep Nameserver

Igor

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Brian Henning <bhenning at pineinst.com>
wrote:

> Igor, your response matches with my weak understanding of Glue records.
> Since the nameserver isn’t something.undecidedgames.net, I don’t need a
> Glue record.
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> I have set up A, AAAA, and CNAME records at dns.he.net, and I can handle
> setting it up for dynamic updates.  The problem is that dns.he.net
> doesn’t think the delegation is complete, so it won’t respond at all to
> queries for undecidedgames.net.  I see this message at the top of the
> Free DNS Management page:
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> “This zone does not appear to be properly delegated to our nameservers.
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> If you have corrected this issue, please click the 'Check Delegation' tab
> below to have the zone rechecked.  Keep in mind that once the change has
> been made to refect our nameservers in your whois record, it may take up to
> 24 hours for the actual delegation to take place.”
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> If I click the Check Delegation button, I get this additional message:
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> “Looked for an NS and found a CNAME. Domain must not be a CNAME.”
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> AFAICT, the ONLY servers that are claiming undecidedgames.net is a CNAME
> are 1and1’s nameservers, who are no longer listed as the authoritative
> nameservers for undecidedgames.net.
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> I have no idea why dns.he.net is still asking 1and1.com to resolve
> undecidedgames.net, because nothing else that I can find points there.  I
> can’t figure out why it thinks the delegation hasn’t completed.
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> -B
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> *From:* ipartola at gmail.com [mailto:ipartola at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Igor
> Partola
> *Sent:* Thursday, August 20, 2015 3:58 PM
> *To:* Scott Lambdin; Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
> *Cc:* Brian Henning
> *Subject:* Re: [TriLUG] Ugh... More DNS questions
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> I don't think this is the problem with glue records. If he told 1and1 to
> use ns[1-4].he.net as the DNS servers, that's all there is to it.
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> I think the problem is in the he.net defining the records. Brian, do you
> have an A record there for undecidedgames.net? If not, I'd create one.
> Then we can help you set it up for dynamic updates.
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> Igor
>