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[Chicken]

All of you with domains at enom, can you check an external whois (not at enom, anywhere else) on your domains and tell me if nameservers show up for the domains?

All of my domains do not show nameservers (quite disturbing), some of my mail is apparently going to Burstnet servers (I had an account with them 2 years ago), and I'm just confused and wanting to see if this isn't just me, or if I'm the lucky one, or ???

To see what I mean, do a whois from anywhere (but enom) for http://www.hosthideout.com and you probably won't see nameservers listed.

[Angel78]

DOMAIN CREATED : 2001-02-08 11:59:04
DOMAIN EXPIRES : 2003-02-08 11:59:04

NAMESERVERS:


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Query number: 2,769
(Ver, Dec 2 2001 - 22:04:01)

hm you are right no ns there

[thewitt]

Here is the listing from the registry of record whois at Internic:

Domain Name: HOSTHIDEOUT.COM
Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Referral URL: http://www.enom.com
Name Server: NS2.SPACECHICKEN.COM
Name Server: NS1.SPACECHICKEN.COM
Updated Date: 09-jan-2002

-t

[Chicken]

Well, the real issue was that emails weren't going through (somehow ending up trying to be deleivered to burstnet's carter.burst.net server), instead of where they should be going, which is to my server.

I don't know, the nameserver thing just happened to be a side thing that freaked me out, possibly related, but overall, I'm just a bit confused as to what is going on now. Things worked fine up to a few days ago.

[thewitt]

Chicken,

You are using a CNAME record as your MX record. This is not a good thing.

Change to using another A record for your MX record.

Here's a pretty good FAQ.

http://www.intac.com/~cdp/cptd-faq/

and the section you need:

http://www.intac.com/~cdp/cptd-faq/section6.html

-t

[Chicken]

Well, indirectly I am. This is a plesk default setup though it isn't how I used to do it. Current set up:

hosthideout.com. MX 10 mail. hosthideout.com.
mail.hosthideout.com. CNAME hosthideout.com.

As I said, this isn't how I used to do it. I would have set an A RECORD for everything, and not used CNAMES at all. As I said, this does work, and did work up to 3 days ago. It could be changed to:

hosthideout.com. MX 10 mail.hosthideout.com.
mail.hosthideout.com. A 64. 247. 6. 156

-but I'm not sure it would make any difference and solve the problem.

[wmac]

Hello

I encountered this nameserver show up problem about 2 weeks ago.

Since then when I do whois for my enom domains at none-enom registrars specially opensrs registrars such as 000domains it does not show nameserver settings.

I think enom is not a good high level domain registrar. They do not provide direct access to NameServer creation (i.e your own nameservers) or at least most of their resellers do not have it.

Their site does not provide anything useful about this.

I have had many problems with different enom resellers.

Mac

[nox]

Originally posted by sarmadys
Hello

I think enom is not a good high level domain registrar. They do not provide direct access to NameServer creation (i.e your own nameservers) or at least most of their resellers do not have it.

Enom do provide the ability to create name servers from your login area.. the only thing you need to ask them to do is change the IP's if you move to a different netblock and they do this the same day..

Maybe the resellers you use are having their own troubles with the API or something similar... apart from some data base glitches and the occasional busy time when their server is very slow, they actually have the best available set of features of any registrar and they don't charge for them.. I can sympathise with you though because the slowness used to make me very angry, but on balance they are the best value I can find, and I look a lot..