Re: Dig timeout on certain domains

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 19:11, Aaron O'Hara wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm running FC1 with Bind and I'm having DNS issues.  I'm using DiG 9.2.2
> and it doesn't work on domains I know to be valid:
> 
> www.futureshop.ca
> www.theweathernetwork.com
> 
> When I DiG for those domains, I get the message "connection timed out; no
> servers could be reached" after 12 seconds.  Most other domains will respond
> within 1 or 2 seconds.

Both of these names resolve find from here in the UK.

> What would cause DiG not to find a domain?

Try:

dig www.futureshop.ca +trace

you'll see it making queries to the individual nameservers from the root
downwards and that might give an indication of where the problem is.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>