On Fri, 2021-05-14 at 13:14 -0700, Jack Craig wrote: > With help from this list I recently updated my DNS configuration to > provide for a primary and secondary DNS server where the primary DNS > server is my host inside my domain and the secondary server is > provided by AT&T > > I discovered that the secondary server on file with my registrar was > wrong so I got the right data and they claim to have created a glue > record but I'm still getting that host is not responding > > primary dns ws.linuxlighthouse.com > Secondary server ns2.swbell.net When it comes to using primary and secondary servers, the primary server needs to update the secondary when changes happen (it sends "notifications") and the secondary server needs to accept them. This should be automatic. If manual intervention is required, either something is wrong, or their system is deliberately configured in a way that manual intervention is always going to be required. That's not a good thing for you. As to which one you ought to use and declare as your primary server, it should be the real primary one. And it should be the fastest one with the ability to handle the workload. > would some kind soul direct me to a coherent glue (or duct tape) > record test? Your "dig" tool can query any DNS server, so pick some servers that other people will be querying (to see what they will see). Remember that you've set time-to-live and expiry times, each server will/can cache results for those time periods, and any changes may propagate through slowly. Some systems completely ignore your times, and do whatever they feel like (huge long cache times, tiny ones, whatever). Having a domain answer its own queries (your name server, and the answer it gives for your domain at the same IP), is a chicken and egg situation. If I want the IP for example.com, and example.com is the name server going to answer that question, how to I connect to it to find out its IP? Something outside of that has to set queries going in the right direction. In essence, a third party is going to give them an IP address for your nameserver (most likely, your DNS registrar). See: https://ns1.com/blog/glue-records-and-dedicated-dns or: https://serverfault.com/questions/309622/what-is-a-glue-record This is yet another reason I don't act as my public DNS server. > also, given some domain name how do you know which top level domain > name servers should be the first set that you query to locate your > domain in question?? How things query DNS systems is generally automatic (other than your manual testing). A system asked to find out about linuxlighthouse.com will find out (or already know) who to first ask about .com top-level domains. Then it'll query one of them about who to ask about linuxlighthouse.com. Then it'll query that one for the answers. Think of a family tree, searched in the opposite direction. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.25.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 28 21:49:45 UTC 2021 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
