Won't resolve domain but all other DNS servers do

[Michael Long]

Mine and mindspring's servers say that www.actechnologies.net does not
exist - how can i look up to see what zones that dns server is
serving? Can I do it with the root servers?

How does trace work - does it simply adding more debugging info to my
standard logs?

On 29 Mar 2000 15:06:13 -0800, Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com>
wrote:

>In article <38e27bf8.88393529 at nntp.infoave.net>,
>Michael Long <mlong at spamnot.infoave.net> wrote:
>>I am admin for 3 DNS servers, all running the latest 8.2.2P5 I
>>believe.  We host a couple thousand domains, and for the most part,
>>have no problems.
>>
>>However, someone brought a domain to me "yorko.com" which would not
>>resolve for clients using our DNS server for resolving.  When you did
>>a nslookup it would sit there for like 30 seconds then come back and
>>say it did not exist.
>>
>>Now we don't host this domain, and we never have.  When I go to other
>>DNS servers (mindspring.com, aol, etc.) they have no trouble resolving
>>it.
>>
>>It seems to me this should be transparent - named should go to the
>>root server, then to dell (the host of this domain), then come back to
>>us with the IP.
>>
>>Why is this failing for us and not for any other dns servers?  
>
>Are you able to look up names in other domains that those servers host?
>For instance, can you look up www.actechnologies.net?
>
>If not, here are two reasons I can think of:
>
>1) There's a communication problem between your server and the network
>that ns1.us.dellhost.com and ns2.us.dellhost.com are on.  Can you ping them
>from your nameserver?
>
>2) Your server may, somehow, have incorrect addresses for those server
>names.  If you look them up, they should be 209.235.107.14 and
>209.235.107.16.  If not, you need to check all your files to see where you
>may have these names entered.
>
>To troubleshoot further, turn on tracing with "ndc trace", try to look up
>www.yorko.com, and then check the trace file to see what it was doing.
>
>-- 
>Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
>GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
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