Topic: Need Help ASAP

[Jehu]

I need help asap...I have SME 5.6 and DNS server is broken. I did a search in the forum and did what people said but it is still broken.  It does not resolve names at all I have to use IP address for everything.

Please Help,

Jehu.

[Anonymous Guest]

Have you tried any troubleshooting of this problem? Few things to try...

see if named is currently running:

# ps -aux | grep dns

this should show ~5 lines running the command /usr/sbin/named

if it is not running, try starting it:

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/named start

Try pinging from the server ...

# ping e-smith.org

If this doesn't work, you may want to try adding/modifying a virtual domain using the server-manager (This should rebuild the name server config and restart it) ---

if all else fails, i guess you could try rebooting the server and see if that clears up the problem (via the server-manager)

[jamson]

Hi all and Jehu ,

Can you share you solution if you have fixed your problem.

I am facing the same problem with dns server down lately.

I was able to use mail.mydomain.com for configuration of outlook and proxy.mydomain.com for squid before.

Lately, DNS is broken and I have to use IP to reslove name.

I have checked the status of the named  and very sure is running with 5 processes.

ps -aux |grep named
dns      15652  0.0  2.2 19932 11832 ?       S    Feb17   0:00 /usr/sbin/named -
dns      15653  0.0  2.2 19932 11832 ?       S    Feb17   0:02 /usr/sbin/named -
dns      15654  0.0  2.2 19932 11832 ?       S    Feb17   1:37 /usr/sbin/named -
dns      15655  0.0  2.2 19932 11832 ?       S    Feb17   0:05 /usr/sbin/named -
dns      15656  0.0  2.2 19932 11832 ?       S    Feb17   0:10 /usr/sbin/named -

I have also reload/restart named process. I have not try rebooting the server yet.

Thank you!

[jehu]

Thanks for your help...I reinstalled the server.