Our ISP's name server went down and brought our DNS down

[Barry Margolin]

In article <394CE2FF.E200A46F at dbprograms.com>,
Brent Bolin  <brent at dbprograms.com> wrote:
>Let me ask this, if my primary name server can't reach the other listed name
>servers where does it go for the answer?.

If it times out trying to talk to all the NS hosts for the domain, it gives
up and returns a response with SERVFAIL in the error code.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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