nslookup fails after a time

[Barry Margolin]

In article <94klig$3te at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Veatch, David <David.Veatch at eScout.com> wrote:
>Greetings all, brand new to the list... hope you don't mind a relative
>newbie question.  I don't mind an RTFM (in fact, I have a coffee mug with
>those letters on them ;), as long as you give me some direction as to the
>which and where of the RTFM... O'Reilly's book is assumed. :)
>
>On to the question.
>
>I'm confused by an odd, yet frequent occurrence on a FreeBSD box of mine.
>After an undetermined amount of time, and for an undetermined reason, a
>certain domain ceases to resolve.   Once I restart named (`ndc restart`),
>the domain resolves again just fine, but after awhile, invariably, it fails
>to resolve with "*** localhost can't find [domain-name]: Non-existent
>host/domain".  There could very well be other unresolvable names at this
>time, but this is the only one I've identified.

Often this is due to problems with NS records for the domain.  If you said
what domain it is, maybe we could tell what's wrong.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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