HELP A timeout occurred getting the NS records from your nameservers!

[layla]

here is my problem does anyone have any ideas?A timeout occurred getting the NS records from your nameservers! None of your nameservers responded fast enough. They are probably down or unreachable. I can't continue since your nameservers aren't responding. If you have a Watchguard Firebox, it's due to a bug in their DNS Proxy, which must be disabled (31 Jul 2006 UPDATE: several years after being informed of this, there is a rumor that there is a fix that allows the Watchguard DNS proxy to work).

[falko]

Where do you get this message? For which domain? To what nameservers is it referring?

[layla]

http://www.dnsreport.com/
domain=stiffmiddlefinger.com unfortunatel my server is down now as i tried to fix the problem, but made it worse

[layla]

can you have a domain name server with the same name as the domain or des it have to be dfferent, i tried it woith freeuniquemusique as the domain also and recieved the same problem
my isp has said that no ports are being blocked

[edge]

can you have a domain name server with the same name as the domain or des it have to be dfferent, i tried it woith freeuniquemusique as the domain also and recieved the same problem
my isp has said that no ports are being blocked

Your DNS name can be the same as your domain.

I can ping ns1 and ns2.stiffmiddlefinger.com okay from here.
Is that (80.42....) your IP?

[layla]

i can do that but i still get this error report!
FAIL
A timeout occurred getting the NS records from your nameservers! None of your nameservers responded fast enough. They are probably down or unreachable. I can't continue since your nameservers aren't responding. If you have a Watchguard Firebox, it's due to a bug in their DNS Proxy, which must be disabled (31 Jul 2006 UPDATE: several years after being informed of this, there is a rumor that there is a fix that allows the Watchguard DNS proxy to work).
ANY IDEAS ON THAT
I CANNOT BRING ANYWEBSITES UP, BUT THAT IS MY IP ADDRESS

[edge]

I've just done a small "scan" on your IP, and only port 81 (to your modem) is open (with a password)

Did you open / forward all the needed ports on your modem/router/firewall?
(for http: port 80 and 8080 tcp & for dns: port 53 tcp and udp)

[layla]

I Think So Can You Help?
Please! How Do I Do That

[layla]

is that through remote management?

[edge]

Go here, and setup your modem to forward port 80, 8080 and 53 to your server's LAN (local) IP.

http://www.portforward.com/english/applications/port_forwarding/XBConnect/XBConnectindex.htm

[layla]

thankyou im going to try now

[layla]

hi, can you check if the ports are open now, i have tried what you said

[falko]

We cannot check it if you don't tell us your public IP address.

[edge]

We cannot check it if you don't tell us your public IP address.

He told me that the IP pointing to stiffmiddlefinger.com was his IP.
At the moment it's not pointing to any IP :/

[layla]

my ip is 80.42.133.2

[edge]

At the moment all your ports (1 to 100) are closed!

[layla]

ill you please tr again as i have tried to open them. and it says tat it is open?

[layla]

ive tried to take a screenshot

[layla]

Your DNS name can be the same as your domain.

I can ping ns1 and ns2.stiffmiddlefinger.com okay from here.
Is that (80.42....) your IP?

how do i make the dns the same as my domain?as i am troubled by it,
i want to use, ns1 ns2 stiffmiddlefinger.com and if i type in www.stiffmiddlefinger.com to bring up my site?

[edge]

www.stiffmiddlefinger.com is now showing me the Fedora Apache test page.
So It's working now!

Port 53 (DNS) and 80 are also open (I did not scan more ports)

ns1.stiffmiddlefinger.com and ns2.stiffmiddlefinger.com, are also going to the correct IP, so this is also setup okay!

Well done

[layla]

if i try to open stiffmidedlefinger it asks me to sign in to my router, can you help as i am not sure what i am doing wrong? i cannot get the test page up for this?

[edge]

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showpost.php?p=20075&postcount=3

[falko]

http://www.stiffmiddlefinger.com/ is working for me. If it's not working in your LAN, then your router doesn't support loopbacks into your network. In this case you can either set up an internal nameserver that resolves www.stiffmiddlefinger.com to its local IP address, or you change you computer's hosts file, as edge suggested in his post.

[layla]

can you pick up the music site www.freeuniquemusique.com

[falko]

can you pick up the music site www.freeuniquemusique.com
No, that one isn't working because you entered the internal IP address in the DNS record instead of its public IP address:

dig www.freeuniquemusique.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> www.freeuniquemusique.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10111
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.freeuniquemusique.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.freeuniquemusique.com. 43166 IN A 192.168.0.101

;; Query time: 98 msec
;; SERVER: 145.253.2.75#53(145.253.2.75)
;; WHEN: Sun Oct 22 15:07:35 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 59

[layla]

ok so ive changed the a records to 80.... etc but how do i put up my site as i upload or make my site viewable i have my files on the ftp? can you let me know?
please
layla

[falko]

but how do i put up my site as i upload or make my site viewable i have my files on the ftp? can you let me know?
please
layla
You upload your files with FTP.