Reasons why domains shouldn’t use two nameservers
Man, there is one thing I hate and that is where a domain I use goes down and the thing I really hate is when it goes down due to a basic setup of DNS with just two nameservers.ÂÂ
Not many people might not know, but there is an e-mail service known as “Rex.co.il” which I have used for reasons not to be explained but as of today, it went down. The reason it went down is
ns1.datanin.net.  ['212.25.111.139'] (NO GLUE)   [TTL=86400] ÂÂ
dns.edcsim.com.  ['212.25.111.129'] (NO GLUE)   [TTL=86400]ÂÂ
Both of those nameservers refused to give any records for the domain rex.co.il. When this happens, it typically means that the nameservers went down however, I didn’t leave it there and decided to see if it did actually went down. The e-mail service is powered by everyone.net and is owned by Dot web services,
Everyone.net hasn’t went down as I used that myself for another domain so that ain’t the issue. As shown above, the issue lays with the DNS however if you notice, the Dot web services site isn’t down. I notice this too so I had a look at their DNS.
ns2.datanin.net.  ['212.25.111.129'] (NO GLUE)   [TTL=86400]ÂÂ
ns1.datanin.net.  ['212.25.111.139'] (NO GLUE)   [TTL=86400]ÂÂ
While a min, you notice something ?
Thats right, it uses the exact same servers (just uses different hostnames for ns2) however it is up. So, this means just a few things. The first is that there is a techincal error and for some reason, the rex.co.il was deleted in the DNS, they are working on the DNS record, they are moving the domain to another DNS or that rex.co.il has closed down and they have removed the record.
Naturally, I will keep you updated on this and ya, the title is mis-leding for a reason.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:18 am
“and ya, the title is mis-leading for a reason.”
lol, and the reason is…?
I was gonna ask you about that……. according to the article it uses only 1 server :S
but then I don’t really understand any of it
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April 15th, 2009 at 8:59 am
Greatings,
Ugh, I liked! So clear and positively.
Thank you
Jinny
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April 17th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
As off this posting, rex.co.il is backup.
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April 21st, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Are you sure?
The email still bounced…
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:
****************@rex.co.il
Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)
Technical details of temporary failure:
DNS Error: Could not contact DNS servers
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April 22nd, 2009 at 5:16 am
I sent that email on the 19th, when I read that it was supposedly back up again and now it came back for the final time:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
****************@rex.co.il
Technical details of permanent failure:
DNS Error: Could not contact DNS servers
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April 25th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
As of this message, the whole thing is completely down (even the company that owned the domain).
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