Server Down - No A Record?

OK... I'm not sure how to fix this and I'm not sure of the source. Without warning, the following happened, server has been down, web, mail, etc. For a while I could only ssh into it but that's about all. Here's what I'm finding doing a DNS lookup at dnsinfo:

How I am searching:
Searching for mydomain.com A record at l.root-servers.net [198.32.64.12]: Got referral to A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [took 116 ms]
Searching for mydomain.com A record at A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. [192.5.6.30]: Got referral to ns1.mynameserver.net. [took 9 ms]
Searching for mydomain.com A record at ns1.mynameserver.net. [xx.xx.xx.xx]: Reports that no A records exist. [took 29 ms]

Answer:
No A records exist for mydomain.com. [Neg TTL=0 seconds]

Details:
ns1.mynameserver.net. (an authoritative nameserver) says that there are no A records for mydomain.com.
(mydomain.com does exist, but has no A records).
Looking at the results using the details I get the following -- the records all match at the root servers but here's what I get looking up the nameservers:


ns1.mynameserver.net [xx.xx.xx.xx] [Error: Socket error 10054 [s=11824 tcp=0]] 217ms
ns2.mynameserver.net [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] [Error: Socket error 10054 [s=12692 tcp=0]] 217ms
Trying to pull in email using outlook yields the following error:

Task 'admin@dom - Receiving' reported error (0x80040900) : 'The server name you entered can not be found on the network (it might be down temporarily). Please verify that you are online and that the server name is correct.'
Now I keep seeing errors that eximstats, mysql, cpsrvd all failed and a restart was attempted automagically. Still, can't find anything. I'm not sure what the A record means. I do know that WHM and CPanel were all unavailable but somehow I've been able to pull them in by rebooting the server using ssh and typing "reboot" which finally seemed to do the trick. Now I'm looking at WHM and selected for my primary nameserver: "add an A entry for this nameserver" -- which I know I did prior. The window popups up and tells me the correct information so I add the entry. I do the same for the secondary.

Even doing the following, checking the A records I'm still being told they don't exist. I'm completely out of answers here and this problem is persisting... all responses much appreciated.

 

 

 

 

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