Getting Server Failed and DNS adds my domain to ALL domain name queries?

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Francis Drebin said:
I haven't set up DNS in a long time.. and this sounds really familiar
but I'm really stuck.. I got internal addresses working and the
reverse zones.. when nslookup or ping www.yahoo.com or www.google.com
- I get Server Failed.. when I turn on debugging and look at the log,
it's looking for www.yahoo.com.mydomainname.com

Any ideas??
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Is there a "." in Forward Lookup Zones?
If there is delete it, that enables the Root Hint servers and also allows
you to set your ISP's DNS as a forwarder.
 
Thanks for the reply..

There were a couple things wrong.. I did forget to remove the "." zone..
while messing around, I accidentally disabled recursion.. so when my DNS
couldn't find it, it stopped there and also, I tried re-creating the zone
with "." at the end.. so mydomain.com. instead of mydomain.com (keeping in
mind how old-style BIND always worked).. a combination of those seemed to
have done it..

I also learned that in nslookup, if you turn on debugging.. on a regular,
working machine - it always concatenates your own DNS suffix to a query..
and then, if there isn't a match, it tries it without the suffix.. I never
new that!

Thanks again!
 
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Francis Drebin said:
Thanks for the reply..

There were a couple things wrong.. I did forget to remove the "."
zone.. while messing around, I accidentally disabled recursion.. so
when my DNS couldn't find it, it stopped there and also, I tried
re-creating the zone with "." at the end.. so mydomain.com. instead
of mydomain.com (keeping in mind how old-style BIND always worked)..
a combination of those seemed to have done it..

I also learned that in nslookup, if you turn on debugging.. on a
regular, working machine - it always concatenates your own DNS suffix
to a query.. and then, if there isn't a match, it tries it without
the suffix.. I never new that!

Thanks again!
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That's the way it works!
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