RE: DNS (OT)

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 13:09, dbrett wrote:
> The computers in the domain were all up.  So even if the entries were
> cached shouldn't the requests still work. (I thought the zone entries were
> cached not the DNS)
> 
> I though with the first two servers down, the request would go to the
> third server.  What am I missing?
> 

I suspect that the issue is that the third server is not set up properly
at the parent server.  It is fine and dandy to add NS records to your
zone file but you need all the servers to be in the parent (whois ?)
records so when someone asks for "who is the authorative dns for
mydomain.com they get sent to the right servers.

I use 
http://www.dnsreport.com/
a lot for troubleshooting and verifying dns stuff.


HTH

Bret