Host not aware of own hosted domains

If I go to the console of my new DA server and try to ping a domain that's hosted on that server I get a response that reads, ping: unknown host domain-name.com.

If I ping the same domain from an external host the IP address resolves correctly, so I believe that the DNS service on the server is working OK from the outside, just not the inside.

Any ideas?

check /etc/resolv.conf and update your nameservers, i use to use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (google ns)

Another thing usefull should be put the real domain ^^

Yes, thank you. That seemed to work.

SeLLeRoNe said:

check /etc/resolv.conf and update your nameservers, i use to use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 (google ns)

Another thing usefull should be put the real domain ^^

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You might find 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 are much faster nameservers than Google's nameservers - of course depends on your location.

From italy, im pretty ok with those but, well, add yours aswell dont cost anything

Thanks

suhailc said:

You might find 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 are much faster nameservers than Google's nameservers - of course depends on your location.

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How much faster is "much faster"? Are you really going to notice a 1 msec difference? Would you notice a 100 msec difference?

Floyd just an info, how did u get that result? Just for know some new useful commands ^^

Thanks

Thanks, i did know dig, didnt notice that gave that kind of info aswell nice to know

The 4.2.2.x nameservers are in Level3 address space and are maintained by Level3 for Verizon. When I had space in a Level3 datacenter they worked very reliably. They don't always work reliably from other locations.

I strongly suggest 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.8.4 (Google); they're anycast servers, which means there are multiple servers in multiple locations (as are the Verison servers) and have huge caches, which means very little wasted time doing additional lookups; almost everything you'd ever lookup is already in there.

I just did some tests on Google nameservers: for all I tested (not a lot) working DNS came back in approximately 40 msec; nonworking DNS (which means recursion had to be tried) came back at a bit under 300 msec.

Jeff