hi there I've this question: I've my own ns1.mydomain.com and use ns2.myprovider.com.
When I register a new domain I give this 2 name servers. Later I inform my provider to setup their ns2.myprovider.com to serve that domain.
At this point how can I check that the provider did the job? I mean I can do a nslookup and it gives me ns1.mydomain.com, but is there a way to do a check on the ns2.
Hoping the question is clear, I wait your lightining.
thank in advance

Originally posted by scsi
hi there I've this question: I've my own ns1.mydomain.com and use ns2.myprovider.com.
When I register a new domain I give this 2 name servers. Later I inform my provider to setup their ns2.myprovider.com to serve that domain.
At this point how can I check that the provider did the job? I mean I can do a nslookup and it gives me ns1.mydomain.com, but is there a way to do a check on the ns2.
Hoping the question is clear, I wait your lightining.
thank in advance

Just do:

nslookup www.domain.com ns2.myprovider.com

That will lookup "www.domain.com" using the nameserver "ns2.myprovider.com".

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thanx that what I was looking for.
is it eventually possible without knowing wich is the ns2 for the specified domain?

Originally posted by scsi
thanx that what I was looking for.
is it eventually possible without knowing wich is the ns2 for the specified domain?

Not really... but you can use dig to get the list of nameservers for the domain - and then use these with nslookup if you want.

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how can I use dig?
yes I need to have a list of name servers associated to a particular domain

Originally posted by scsi
how can I use dig?
yes I need to have a list of name servers associated to a particular domain

Just go

dig www.domain.com

And then you'll see an AUTHORITY SECTION. Here is listed the nameservers for the domain.

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Our RaQ4r is quite slow at giving results for dig and times out on nslookup.

We run our own DNS using TinyDNS.

Is this a problem with our hosts nameservers or something that we need to tweak on the RaQ?

Robert

Originally posted by highlander
Our RaQ4r is quite slow at giving results for dig and times out on nslookup.

We run our own DNS using TinyDNS.

Is this a problem with our hosts nameservers or something that we need to tweak on the RaQ?
Robert

Well, what part is slow?

Try using dig to query your own two nameservers, then query the whole chain of nameservers. At the bottom of the output from dig, you can see how many ms the query took. From this you can deduce where the problem is.

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All queries take very variable lengths of time, between 3 and 1500ms.

Using another server also running TinyDNS we have a more stable set of results all in the range 4 to 8ms

Presumably this makes our own nameservers the prime suspect.

Robert

I have now enabled dnscache and all works beautifully at lightening speed.

Thanks,

Robert