Hi,

I am hosting a dedicated server with Catalog. I am running Plesk on Redhat 6.2 and my own DNS server (inbuilt into Plesk).

Now i am facing a very strange problem. My DNS server keeps closing down. I really dont know whats wrong with it. I checked out the system status and my server is up for a long time. No problem there. It has around 175 low profile sites (hardly 10 hits a day per site).

HTTP keeps working, mail server works, everything is fine. Just the DNs goes down.

When i asked Catalog about this problem, I was told that there are too many bad requests and I need to change DNS setting of each individual domain in a particular fashion.

What I want to know is that :
- Is this the right diagonasis ?
- Is there any other way to change all DNS entries in a shortcut method ! (remember I am using Plesk).
- What other reasons can result in such a situation

Any help will be highly appriciated.

Abhishek

I've seen similar problems with the DNS server on a catalog.com server (RH7.0 with Plesk)... We haven't done a detailed diagnosis yet, though. Let me know what you find out.

Hi,

I am currently trying to modify all the NS entries from the databases. :( asper their suggestion.

I also had particular difficulty in running cgi scripts off their server ! Is this a common problem on all Plesk controlled web servers ?

Abhishek

Yes :(
Right now, I don't know why some cgi works with .cgi extension, some other only with .pl extension. I have followed the instruction of the plesk site and even if i copy a .cgi script from one domain to another (internal on the server) on the second domain the cgi does not work.

NHosting

We have over 50-75 servers running plesk, and i havent had anyone experience dns problems like your suggesting which would lead me to believe its not plesk, I have heard of the cgi problems, but after working with the scripts we were able to get them all working... you can always contact plesks support directly at support@plesk.com

Hi,

I have been able to figure out the cgi problem at plesk.
You must make sure that !

- cgi files have chmod 755
- cgi-bin directory have permission 755
- all directories below the cgi-bin have permission no greater than 755

If the above are not done, you will get a permission problem in your error log files !

- files are uploadedas ascii
- a dos2unix conversion is run after upload !
- and please again check for the file permission

If the above are not followed you will get a "Premature end of header files error".

If you need the dos2unix conversion script (shell script), just mail me and i will send it over.

Regards
Abhishek