Hi,

My secondary DNS zone won't update from my primary (I'm using the IP of 127.0.0.1) and I have my nameservers registered and running 'ns1.4dmembers.com' and 'ns2.4dmembers.com' but when I try to ping the domain 4dmembers.com it says it's unable to find the hostname.

I ran a DNSreport and got the following http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=4dmembers.com.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why the DNS zone isn't updating from the primary; why my domain doesn't work and why my seconday nameserver keeps being listed as my primary and the primary nameserver as the second.

Thanks,

David

127.0.0.1 is the loopback address of the machine. All machines have thier loopback set to 127.0.0.1 as an address. Because of this, one machine cannot talk to another machine using 127.0.0.1 because it will be talking to it's self.

Make sense?

Yeah I know. The Primary zone is on the same machine as the Seconday and it wouldn't accept the machines IP on the network. The only IP I could get it to accept was 127.0.0.1.

David

You really shouldn't have two nameservers on the same machine but...

Just AXFR from ns1's IP...no need to use 127.0.0.1

-davidu

Yeah I know but this is just a temporary measure for a couple of weeks. Whenever I try to use nameserver 1's IP it always says 'Invalid IP' and does the same with all IPs except 127.0.0.1.

Thanks,

David