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QuestionFun with DNS Pin
kmoorevs15-Nov-20 10:35
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This past Friday out of the blue, I was alerted that one of our hosted websites was 'down'. A quick check revealed that it was reachable with the static IP, pointing to a DNS issue. To double-check I tried it from a remote server and got the same results. WTE? It was working fine the day before.

I logged in to the registrar to make sure the domain name/account was still in good standing and it was. As it turns out, both of the name servers were unreachable. I hate changing these settings, so I put it off for the day hoping that it was just a temporary outage.

The next morning I checked again,.. still not working so I decided since it's the weekend, to go ahead and swap the unreachable name servers for a new pair and it's all working again, almost instantly in fact, despite the huge warning in big red font that changes will take from 24 to 36 hours.

If anyone else is using dynamicname.com name servers, you should check your stuff. I had hoped they would have 'resolved' their issues quickly but 2 days was too long for me to wait.

When I get a problem like this, it's just natural to understand what happened to cause it and what can I do to keep it from happening again. So here, I see the weakness as having both name servers at the same domain...but (someone please correct me if I'm wrong!) that seems to be the rule. I searched through a dozen or so articles for guidance. All of the examples show the ns differing only by the server name. (domain staying constant) This seems to make sense as I would think there is a local cache between the primary and secondary's, but I'm a programmer, not a network specialist! Laugh | :laugh:

So I've got it working with the registrar's recommended named servers, which are just sequenced names to the same domain. If that domain goes down, I'll be in the same situation as before. Is it OK for me to use another registrar's (or even Googles') DNS as a secondary? (or just add it to the chain) Probably not, but I can't seem to find a source that tells me it can't be done. BTW, the original name servers setup for that domain had been reliable for 20+ years, so it's not like it's a common thing.

This answers last week's survey...'Who does your IT support?' Laugh | :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"

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