DNS issues on ISPConfig 3 on VPS

[mdkberry]

Hi All

just built ISPConfig 3 on Centos 5.6 - i386 on a VPS server. All running fine except seeing problems with DNS. Its a bit complicated to explain but so far it goes like this...

the hostname is vps01.mbitservices.com.au the public ip address of my vps is 103.1.185.18

I am hosting x3 sites on it , I own the domain names registered at Crazy Domains:

mbitservices.com.au
markberrymusic.com
openheartliving.com

I have added DNS zones into ISPConfig 3 for all the above and I am setting
ns1.mbitservices.com.au with an A record : 103.1.185.18 on each site within ISPConfig 3. As the first name server and Crazy Domains relevant name server as the second NS.

I have added the glue record ns1.mbitservices.com.au as ip 103.1.185.18 into Crazy domains for the site mbitservices.com.au

mbitservices.com.au is working fine on the internet
the other two are not

even if I ping from a shell into my VPS I cannot ping those sites.
and nslookup suggests the DNS is actually using the VPS hosts Name servers

help!
any suggestion

[CSsab]

I think it might be as simple as adding A records for your name servers in both of these zones:

markberrymusic.com
openheartliving.com

Give it a try.

[mdkberry]

Hi CSsab

thanks for the suggestion, it nearly worked, I am now able to access the sites using

markberrymusic.com
openheartliving.com

but if I put www. in front of them it fails.

lookups for both www. and without supposedly resolve to 103.1.185.18 , and I am pretty sure I have setup the ISPConfig 3 correctly according to the manual...

I have the auto-subdomain set to 'www.' in the sites section
I have the A records for both domains set for 'www' as well as MX records and everything that would normally be created using the domain zone wizard setup in ISPConfig 3 is set.

any other ideas?

Rgds
Mark

[falko]

I'm getting no A records for both domains (with and without www):

mh1:~# dig markberrymusic.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> markberrymusic.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 48695
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;markberrymusic.com.            IN      A

;; Query time: 280 msec
;; SERVER: 213.133.98.98#53(213.133.98.98)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 24 11:37:30 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 36

mh1:~# dig www.markberrymusic.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> www.markberrymusic.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62504
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
www.markberrymusic.com. 86400   IN      SOA     ns1.nameresolve.com. hostmaster.www.markberrymusic.com. 2011092400 16384 2048 1048576 2560

;; Query time: 183 msec
;; SERVER: 213.133.98.98#53(213.133.98.98)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 24 11:37:35 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 103

mh1:~# dig openheartliving.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> openheartliving.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 35879
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;openheartliving.com.           IN      A

;; Query time: 291 msec
;; SERVER: 213.133.98.98#53(213.133.98.98)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 24 11:37:47 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 37

mh1:~# dig www.openheartliving.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> www.openheartliving.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51460
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

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

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
www.openheartliving.com. 86400  IN      SOA     ns1.nameresolve.com. hostmaster.www.openheartliving.com. 2011092320 16384 2048 1048576 2560

;; Query time: 102 msec
;; SERVER: 213.133.98.98#53(213.133.98.98)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 24 11:37:51 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 104

mh1:~#

Did you check your domains on www.intodns.com ?

[falko]

Just found this:

mh1:~# dig ns markberrymusic.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> ns markberrymusic.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29695
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;markberrymusic.com.            IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
markberrymusic.com.     86400   IN      NS      ns1.nameresolve.com.
markberrymusic.com.     86400   IN      NS      ns1.mbitservices.com.au.

;; Query time: 343 msec
;; SERVER: 213.133.98.98#53(213.133.98.98)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 24 11:39:28 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 103

mh1:~# dig ns openheartliving.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> ns openheartliving.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6606
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;openheartliving.com.           IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
openheartliving.com.    86400   IN      NS      ns1.mbitservices.com.au.
openheartliving.com.    86400   IN      NS      ns1.nameresolve.com.

;; Query time: 345 msec
;; SERVER: 213.133.98.98#53(213.133.98.98)
;; WHEN: Sat Sep 24 11:39:40 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 104

mh1:~#

Both not-working domains use ns1.nameresolve.com as one nameserver, while the working domain mbitservices.com.au uses ns1.mbitservices.com.au and ns2.mbitservices.com.au.

[mdkberry]

Hi

Thanks Falko it put me onto a solution though I am not sure it is supposed to be done this way at least it works and everything is up and running.

I basically have had to create a separate name server for each domain zone and then set that as the name server with a glue record for each domain back at Crazy domains.

e.g. I have ns1.markberrymusic.com added into that domain zone on ISPConfig as an A record and as the primary name server, and then set it again as a glue record at crazy domains, and I have done this the same for each site I have on ISPconfig.

I dont think this is how it is supposed to be set up but its working, I am still convinced something is wrong in the bind chroot DNS setup somewhere on my server but hell, if it works I dont much care

thanks for the input. hopefully that will be it now and I can finally get some sleep.

Mark