Re: OT: DNS

[Alan Hodgson <ahodgson simkin ca>]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:52:32PM -0400, dbrett wrote:
> This is more of an Internet DNS question.  We have three DNS servers
> registered for our domain.  Unfortuantely two of the servers are down and
> the third one is up and operational.  
> If someone were to do a query for the domain it would fail.  If the query
> was done to the third DNS directly it would succed.
> 
> Does anybody understand why?
>

Hard to say without knowing the domain name (and therefore being able
to check it).  Could be a number of things (bad delegation, missing glue,
bad setup on the third server - ie. it may be serving cached data instead
of authoritative data).

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