DNS / Open Directory Question

[azsooner]

I can post more information if needed, but I will do the best I can right off the bat.

A few weeks ago my Tiger server died on me and I was forced to deploy my Leopard server, which was almost complete at the time, into action. Having setup the server software over the years, I used Lynda.com as a reference just to make sure I wasn’t messing up anything too badly. The biggest problem I had moving forward was no time to test anything.

I had everything working correctly with DNS and Open Directory. All services seemed to be working correctly except linking my domain catapultu.net to our internal server. So if there is a point that the current problem I have can be traced back to, it would be the point that I started messing around with getting my domain name to resolve to our internal server.

Here is an example of what is going on. (screen shots – [url]http://catapultu.net/downloads/catapult/server/[/url])

ballistaserver.catapultu.net. (10.0.0.254) – this is my fully qualified domain name for my server. Resolves just fine from the server. Used to do the same from my clients. Now all the seems to work is cataputlu.net and 10.0.0.254. Side note: I used to be able to connect to my server using ballistaserver.catapultu.net, but now is says no go. I can use the 10.0.0.254 or ballistaserver.

catapultu.net. (66.213.234.26) – this is my domain name that I’m pointing to externally. This was not working initially, but is now. I have since added my external DNS servers to the forwarding portion of DNS.

My router is set to the external IP address (66.213.234.26) and points to my internal network (10.0.0.254).

The software update server was working and now it is not. I thought that if I used catapultu.net or 10.0.0.254 that would fix the issues that I have created with my clients. It appears to use the software update server correctly, but I need it to point to ballistaserver.catapultu.net. to get it to actually see something. When I change my direction to ballistaserver.catapultu.net is can’t find it. It can only find it if I use 10.0.0.254 or catapultu.net.

The question that I have though is, did I mess something up or am I missing one critical piece of info that will bring it all together?

I was and still am getting correct resolution internally to a certain degree. I have listed the output from the server terminal below for changeip and several dig commands. What I have been trying to accomplish since then, was to get my external domain and static IP address to resolve back to our internal server.

After a few days of failure, I discovered OpenDNS. I added our domain to their DNS servers and added them to the forwarding portion of DNS as well.

Forwarder IP Addresses
66.213.224.2 – this is an Eschelon DNS server, they are our ISP and host our static IP address (66.213.234.26).
64.65.128.6 – this is an Eschelon DNS server, they are our ISP and host our static IP address (66.213.234.26).
208.67.220.220 – this is an OpenDNS DNS server, I have our static IP address pointed there.
208.67.222.222 – this is an OpenDNS DNS server, I have our static IP address pointed there.

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Last login: Fri Jun 13 11:35:06 on ttys000
ballistaserver:~ lucius-sa$ sudo changeip -checkhostname
Password:

Primary address = 10.0.0.254

Current HostName = ballistaserver.catapultu.net
DNS HostName = ballistaserver.catapultu.net

The names match. There is nothing to change.
ballistaserver:~ lucius-sa$

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ballistaserver:~ lucius-sa$ dig 10.0.0.254

; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> 10.0.0.254
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4410 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;10.0.0.254. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 5011 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2008061301 1800 900 604800 86400 ;; Query time: 27 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.254#53(10.0.0.254) ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 13 13:07:36 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 103 ballistaserver:~ lucius-sa$ dig catapultu.net ; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> catapultu.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 16447 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;catapultu.net. IN A ;; Query time: 8 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.254#53(10.0.0.254) ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 13 13:07:50 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 31 ballistaserver:~ lucius-sa$ dig ballistaserever.catapultu.net ; <<>> DiG 9.4.1-P1 <<>> ballistaserever.catapultu.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 3939 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ballistaserever.catapultu.net. IN A ;; Query time: 0 msec ;; SERVER: 10.0.0.254#53(10.0.0.254) ;; WHEN: Fri Jun 13 13:08:06 2008 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 47 -------------------------------------------------------

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