[LON-CAPA-admin] not a valid domain

[Stuart Raeburn]

Hi,

> Sorry ...
> Error The domain you provided is not a valid LON-CAPA domain.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

This issue has affected most high school domains, including fsuK12 and  
domains hosted by ohiou and educog.

The issue here is that when the 5.10 am local time run of loncron ran  
today 5/28, the dns_domain.tab retrieved by your servers was  
incomplete, because the data retrieved from the selected the LON-CAPA  
Academic Consortium "DNS" server was truncated for some reason.

To fix this issue do the following:

1. Use a text editor to comment out the following line:
^dalton.chem.sfu.ca

in /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab

2. Log-in to LON-CAPA on your server and select the Domain Coordinator  
role and use:

Main Menu -> Status of domain servers -> Update Connections and  
Refresh Status Information


> Any ideas? The domain is listed in the dns_domain.tab file.

Yes.

The "static" dns_domain.tab (shipped with a LON-CAPA release) is only  
consulted in the event that none of the LON-CAPA Academic Consortium  
servers (at SFU, Illinois and MSU are contactable).

However, in this case they are contactable, so the information  
received from the first contacted -- SFU -- was used, when loading the  
domain tables on your server.

Unfortunately, the data returned from that file on the SFU server  
appears to be truncated when a request is made for the data from:

https://dalton.chem.sfu.ca/adm/dns/domain

Please let me know if you have any questions.


Thanks,

Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Acdemic Consortium


Quoting "H. K. Ng" <hkng at fsu.edu>:

> Something strange seems to be going on with loncapa fsuK12 domain. When a
> user tries to login under that domain, it gives the message
>
> Sorry ...
> Error The domain you provided is not a valid LON-CAPA domain.
>
> I tried with on of the msu lite servers and it gives me the same message.
>
> Any ideas? The domain is listed in the dns_domain.tab file.
>
> Thanks,
> -hk
>