My name servers doesnt work on my VPS for .co.za domain

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Hi

Can anyone please help me. I have setup a VPS , windows server 2008, SQL 2008 DNS , IIS7. my nameservers have been registered. but for some reason when i try and update a domains nameservers to point to my new VPS it fails.

uniforum said that ns1 is working fine but my problem is with ns2.

my question to you guys is , what DNS entries should i have on my DNS server to allow .co.za domains to work :confused: :confused: :confused:

Regards

Bradley
 
madhacker said:
Hi

Can anyone please help me. I have setup a VPS , windows server 2008, SQL 2008 DNS , IIS7. my nameservers have been registered. but for some reason when i try and update a domains nameservers to point to my new VPS it fails.

uniforum said that ns1 is working fine but my problem is with ns2.

my question to you guys is , what DNS entries should i have on my DNS server to allow .co.za domains to work :confused: :confused: :confused:

Regards

Bradley
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Hi Bradley

Uniforum requires a valid SOA record on both NS servers before they will allow you to update your name servers.

You should be fine with a NS, MX and a A record for your www if you are hosting a site on your VPS.
 
the top level domain is gpvps1.com its all setup on the server. but i am not sure if the DNS entries for the name server are correct. can you give some guidance of what to do please
 
madhacker said:
the top level domain is gpvps1.com its all setup on the server. but i am not sure if the DNS entries for the name server are correct. can you give some guidance of what to do please
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Hi Bradley

Is your request for moving the name servers failing?

If so can you post of copy of the error message so we can debug
 
Clickworks said:
Hi Bradley

Is your request for moving the name servers failing?

If so can you post of copy of the error message so we can debug
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i am not trying to move nameservers i am trying to update my domain to point to ns1 and ns2. but everytime i get an error from uniforum, "no valid name servers found". Please if you can just give me some guidance of what DNS records needs to be set for gpvps1.com and what DNS settings needs to made in order for the update process to work. Please Please i beg, give me some info.:cry::cry::cry::cry:
 
your 2 x nameserver soa and a records look ok from what i can see.
i'm not a dns expert though.
is your ip address correct as 173.248.151.159?
maybe just use cloudflare rather...
 
I don't see any issue with your setup (but don't blame me if I missed something - I've been staring that this screen for too long already). The one thing that it could be is, your TTLs are 86400. If you updated either NS record or SOA records recently, uniform may be looking at cached information.
 
koffiejunkie said:
I don't see any issue with your setup (but don't blame me if I missed something - I've been staring that this screen for too long already). The one thing that it could be is, your TTLs are 86400. If you updated either NS record or SOA records recently, uniform may be looking at cached information.
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Ok thanks, but what should the TTL value be ?
 
madhacker said:
i am not trying to move nameservers i am trying to update my domain to point to ns1 and ns2. but everytime i get an error from uniforum, "no valid name servers found". Please if you can just give me some guidance of what DNS records needs to be set for gpvps1.com and what DNS settings needs to made in order for the update process to work. Please Please i beg, give me some info.:cry::cry::cry::cry:
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Sorry if i wasn't clear but moving and updating both use the UPDATE statement.

Does it only give you a problem with ns2?

From what i can see your records look correct.

You have setup both matching NS records

NS1

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gphosting.co.za. 86400 IN NS ns2.gpvps1.com.
gphosting.co.za. 86400 IN NS ns1.gpvps1.com.

NS2


;; ANSWER SECTION:
gphosting.co.za. 86400 IN NS ns1.gpvps1.com.
gphosting.co.za. 86400 IN NS ns2.gpvps1.com.
 
Clickworks said:
Sorry if i wasn't clear but moving and updating both use the UPDATE statement.

Does it only give you a problem with ns2?

From what i can see your records look correct.

You have setup both matching NS records

NS1

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gphosting.co.za. 86400 IN NS ns2.gpvps1.com.
gphosting.co.za. 86400 IN NS ns1.gpvps1.com.

NS2


;; ANSWER SECTION:
gphosting.co.za. 86400 IN NS ns1.gpvps1.com.
gphosting.co.za. 86400 IN NS ns2.gpvps1.com.
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yes thats what i get as well, koffiejunkie Post said that it might be my TTL value. what should it be set as, and yes my problem is with NS2. guys please help
 
The TTL would only be a problem if it didn't match per server but your records look fine.

Please post a copy of the error you are getting back from Uniforum.
 
Clickworks said:
The TTL would only be a problem if it didn't match per server but your records look fine.

Please post a copy of the error you are getting back from Uniforum.
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Hi, Sorry i dont have the email with me, but from what i can remember it was doing a cross referance with ns1.gpvps1.com and when it did it with NS2 it failed
 
my provider asks " provide us the exact trouble shooting guide for the .co.za domain registry so that we can check it and assist you accordingly." can anyone help with this ?
 
madhacker said:
my provider asks " provide us the exact trouble shooting guide for the .co.za domain registry so that we can check it and assist you accordingly." can anyone help with this ?
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Your secondary nameserver ip needs a valid reverse DNS record setup. Ask your host to setup RDNS for 173.248.151.160 -> ns2.gpvps1.com

You can see the PTR record is currently blank

Code: 
[root@mgmt ~]# dig -x 173.248.151.160

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.el5 <<>> -x 173.248.151.160
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 15980
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;160.151.248.173.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
151.248.173.in-addr.arpa. 3596  IN      SOA     ns1.wehostwebsites.com. hostmaster.denver.wehostwebsites.com. 2010061130 900 600 86400 3600

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 196.22.160.63#53(196.22.160.63)
;; WHEN: Sun Oct 23 21:29:43 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 122
 
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