DNS woes

[Cobalt64]

I've recently run into problems with DNS on my web server. It is a dedicated server with full access running Fedora Core 5 with CPanel and WHM. Anyway, I started having problems sending E-Mail and then CPanel reported an invalid license.

After trying to refresh the license key, I found out to my dismay that my server could not look up ANY external domains.

My resolv.conf looks like this:

domain i-ebdev.net
nameserver 65.111.164.219
nameserver 65.111.164.233

I modified that from this, which was generated by dhclient-script but I believe to be wrong:

; generated by /sbin/dhclient-script
search int.infolink.com
nameserver 64.251.1.194

Using the latter, dig/nslookup times out, though using the former I get a response albeit nothing in the "reply" section.

A sample for dig www.msn.com is as follows:

root@layla [/]# dig www.msn.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.1 <<>> www.msn.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54372
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.msn.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 3600000 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 3600000 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 65.111.164.219#53(65.111.164.219)
;; WHEN: Sun Oct 22 21:26:02 2006
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 240


I'm at a real loss as to what went wrong and why seeing as though the server has been largely happily chugging along for months without a problem. Obviously something has gone astray but I don't know what.

Any ideas would be more than appreciated.

[e=mc2]

it looks like you don't have any "a records" setup in your dns settings. log into your WHM and see if you can find the DNS settings to create some A-Records. I've forgotten how to do this in cpanel as I haven't used it in a few years but I am pretty sure you can do it from WHM.