ARGH! response to localhost, no response to remote hosts

[Mathias Körber]

Your zone dev.newzletter.com is delegated to two nameservers,
but only one of them knows about it, the other times out.



$ dig newzletter.com ns

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> newzletter.com ns=20
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      newzletter.com, type =3D NS, class =3D IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
newzletter.com.         2D IN NS        NS.newzletter.com.
newzletter.com.         2D IN NS        ROCKWELL.CANLINK.COM.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS.newzletter.com.      2D IN A         205.210.79.193
ROCKWELL.CANLINK.COM.   2D IN A         216.13.90.50

;; Total query time: 199 msec
;; FROM: matjes to SERVER: default -- 0.0.0.0
;; WHEN: Fri Sep  1 09:46:39 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 115

matjes:/etc/rc.d# dig @NS.newzletter.com dev.newzletter.com soa

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @NS.newzletter.com dev.newzletter.com soa=20
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; res_nsend to server NS.newzletter.com  205.210.79.193: Connection =
timed out
matjes:/etc/rc.d# dig @ROCKWELL.CANLINK.COM dev.newzletter.com soa

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @ROCKWELL.CANLINK.COM dev.newzletter.com soa=20
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      dev.newzletter.com, type =3D SOA, class =3D IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
newzletter.com.         1D IN SOA       rockwell.canlink.com. =
hostmaster.canlink.com. (
                                        2000083101      ; serial
                                        8H              ; refresh
                                        2H              ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 312 msec
;; FROM: matjes to SERVER: ROCKWELL.CANLINK.COM  216.13.90.50
;; WHEN: Fri Sep  1 09:47:53 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 36  rcvd: 114


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of Mark Drummond
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 9:30 AM
> To: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: ARGH! response to localhost, no response to remote hosts
>=20
>=20
>=20
> I'm stumped ... can someone try doing an nslookup against
> dev.newzletter.com? Sitting on the master DNS server I can nslookup =
and
> it returns the right answer ... but from a remote location the lookup
> times out with "no such host ...".
>=20
> Yet I can look up www.newzletter.com just fine from either location.
>=20
> @       IN      SOA     rockwell.canlink.com. hostmaster.canlink.com. =
(
>                         2000083101      ; Serial
>                         28800           ; Refresh
>                         7200            ; Retry
>                         604800          ; Expire
>                         86400 )         ; Minumum TTL
>=20
>                 NS      rockwell.canlink.com.
>                 MX      10 parsec.canlink.com.
>=20
> localhost       A       127.0.0.1
> @               A       216.13.90.55
> www             A       216.13.90.55
> dev             A       216.13.90.51
>=20