My server's taking a dump.

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Daz, May 20, 2007.

  1. #1
    Well guys, I need some help.
    Whoever can contact me (PM me) and help me , I'd be glad to compensate them.
    We had a dedicated box at LT. Our main server guy is at his grandfathers funeral over this weekend, so I'm going to try to figure this out otherwise.

    It appears that there is limited to no connectivitly to the server for most of our users, the server is pingable but returns unable to connect.Ftp is not responding which is leading us to believe it is something with the DNS, because multi domains on the server, are getting the same problems. we believe in the crash today something got corrupted in DNS, or lost, but we just dont know.


    Well please PM me if you can help. I'll be up all night till this is sorted..

    Thanks.
     
    Daz, May 20, 2007 IP
  2. Daz

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    Well.. I had one host tell me that the DNS just needs to be started. How? :(
     
    Daz, May 20, 2007 IP
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    Given no idea of OS ?

    Anyway, login through SSH (Linux) or Remote desktop (Windows) and restart the DNS app.

    /sbin/service named restart (for linux)

    You can also try to reboot the server...there maybe a firewall misconfiguration as well.
     
    agnivo007, May 20, 2007 IP
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    Well its cleared up, thanks..
    My coder gave me this as the reason:
    Our DNS server was configured to listen on the IP address *. Evidently it had been working for a while until all of a sudden it decided that * was invalid. I had to change it to our actual IP addresses instead of the wildcard.
     
    Daz, May 21, 2007 IP
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    I gues it was due to IP address allocation to your server. Pointing to different seerver.

    www.dnsreport.com gives any problem in DNS.
     
    inworx, May 23, 2007 IP