From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044A91381F3 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A37D5E0E32; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f173.google.com (mail-wi0-f173.google.com [209.85.212.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 54061E0D16 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2013 09:07:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f173.google.com with SMTP id ca18so227133wib.6 for ; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 02:07:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CKCgXvvN7cBzFVFYa4srjOB/4Ihv1Cs6VZ4BXcmL31I=; b=ilIBcT9RuKl3+Or07YJusquzAxUlvGPV80AcCknJRC8oXXqehJpvy/cEB7DWLt/8zW 0KVgAkjYNuO7BHqI308Bd9Mgh0beHc9C3jBxDBR6+lMCd6R6P8y28zhXxumsEO4ZYBnQ Up9NKyF+AgzL1NGUmWFCl5gqvsJ/rfz6r4hWGKnEbu+zMOsRJyFL/Gx56dzQSeRopw+g UmNOtZkfG8ScO9qthgDnuU0WNAp08djZYiFp4Ep48WnpK1R54M6ephUXXtLUS7uP89TU k7F1HnXX5Ezu/vhqciq+51zw2tf8GcMIG1v9mAauOX4+jksSV+aIWEWsscPladIab1ah Pvdw== X-Received: by 10.194.173.163 with SMTP id bl3mr18303886wjc.10.1378026453390; Sun, 01 Sep 2013 02:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-102-25.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.102.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id r6sm9138256wiw.0.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 01 Sep 2013 02:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <522302F8.30301@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2013 11:03:52 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} DNS: no SOA record or DNSSEC References: <521C9323.1080007@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e2c8bb3e-1dac-4359-96a4-ba5b6dbc661a X-Archives-Hash: a5944b1c52b9d8e80556389df5197adf On 01/09/2013 10:24, Grant wrote: >> Instead just use dig, using google.com as an example get the NS records >> > first: >> > >> > $ dig ns google.com +short >> > ns3.google.com. >> > ns2.google.com. >> > ns1.google.com. >> > ns4.google.com. >> > >> > Then query each of those name server in turn directly for the SOA: >> > >> > $ dig soa google.com +short @ns3.google.com >> > ns1.google.com. dns-admin.google.com. 2013081400 7200 1800 1209600 300 >> > >> > That's a correct SOA record. > Does this look OK? > > $ dig soa MASKED.com +short @MASKED1.MASKED.com > MASKED1.MASKED.com. MASKED.MASKED.com. YYYYMMDD00 3600 1801 604800 3601 That looks OK, doubly so if all listed NS servers return the same answer In all likelihood I'd say you are dealing with a DNS-check web site that is over-enthusiastic, or can't deal with network errors or just plain buggy. IOW, odds are very good that there is nothing wrong with your domain at all :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com