Re: newbie question on DNS

[Oommen Thomas <oommen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, kamesh jayachandran wrote:

<kameshj>I had a shell account on zimcity.net.I used to login there and do my routine 
<kameshj>stuff there.
<kameshj>One day I am not able to login to their server because when I used to do so I 
<kameshj>am connected to my loopback server.
<kameshj>That is the IP address of zimcity.net is set as 127.0.0.1(But this action has 
<kameshj>not taken place in our /etc/hosts file).I hope the same on the vsnl DNS also.
<kameshj>The same IP is returned when I try to connect from other servers to 
<kameshj>zimcity.net which probably look in to its own DNS.
<kameshj>The IP address 127.0.0.1 is reserved for some special purposes,how can domain 
<kameshj>name associate a reserved IP address to itself globally.
<kameshj>Thanks in advance
<kameshj>kamesh jayachandran
<kameshj>

This is definitely a problem with an improper DNS setting by their
provider. The following output of nslookup on the registered NS explains
it.

> zimcity.net
Server:  zerg.landshark.net
Address:  207.163.250.5

zimcity.net     preference = 0, mail exchanger = zerg.crazyfoo.org
zimcity.net     internet address = 127.0.0.1
zimcity.net     nameserver = zerg.landshark.net
zimcity.net     nameserver = terran.landshark.net
zimcity.net
        origin = zerg.landshark.net
        mail addr = root.zimcity.net
        serial = 10371
        refresh = 10801 (3h1s)
        retry   = 3600 (1H)
        expire  = 691200 (1w1d)
        minimum ttl = 86414 (1d14s)
zimcity.net     nameserver = zerg.landshark.net
zimcity.net     nameserver = terran.landshark.net
zerg.crazyfoo.org       internet address = 206.55.133.186
zerg.landshark.net      internet address = 207.163.250.5
terran.landshark.net    internet address = 208.186.177.130

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