remote lookup problem

[Andris Kalnozols]

> Sorry for the long message, but this has me stumped.
> 
> I'm having some trouble doing remote lookups for one of my domains, 
> ellipsis.cx. When I query my nameserver, charybdis.ellipsis.cx, everything 
> seems to work fine:
> 
> What is preventing them from getting the requested records from mine? If 
> This looks correct to me. charybdis is listed as an NS, and the A glue 
> record has the correct IP. So why do queries to other nameservers fail? 
> anyone can spot what the problem is, that would be a big help. I thought I 
> understood how this stuff works, but I"m out of ideas at this point.

According to the parent zone, the nameserver is 'charybdis'.
                                                      ^^
Your zone data lists the nameserver as 'charybids'.
                                             ^^
I also did not spot this right away and thought instead that
the asymmetric zone cut being reported was bogus.

h2n -v ellipsis.cx 

Verifying zone data for domain 'ellipsis.cx'.
Getting NS RRset...
Transferring zone.... (from 'CHARYBDIS.ellipsis.cx' [64.109.29.57])
Parsing zone data...  (NS BIND version: 3.14159)
Performing in-zone and external lookups...

Warning: found NS RR(s) pointing to the following problematic domain name(s):
 charybids.ellipsis.cx.                 [no A record ]  
Warning: found inconsistent NS RRsets surrounding the zone boundary (RFC-1034):
 ellipsis.cx.           IN NS   charybdis.ellipsis.cx.
                        IN NS   ns1.granitecanyon.com.
                        IN NS   ns2.granitecanyon.com.
 (non-authoritative)
 ---------------------------- zone cut ----------------------------
 (  authoritative  )
 @                      IN NS   charybids.ellipsis.cx.
                        IN NS   ns1.granitecanyon.com.
                        IN NS   ns2.granitecanyon.com.
Warning: verifying the NS delegations generated the following error(s):
 Server ns1.granitecanyon.com is not authoritative for ellipsis.cx
 Server ns2.granitecanyon.com is not authoritative for ellipsis.cx

HTH,

Andris Kalnozols
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
andris at hpl.hp.com