More SERVFAIL messages

Thu Nov 15 21:04:10 UTC 2001

Below is the results of trying to lookup a particular machine, I did a dig
about a dozen consecutive times, for arizona1.webair.com, I kept getting
SERVFAIL, the messages below.  I killed in.named to flush cache seeing  how
I could not resolve that name at all. 

Once in.named was restarted, I tried again, the first time failed, the
second and third time worked.  The results are below. This was one right
after another.  I did the same thing on our other DNS server that handles
external DNS lookups.  Any Ideas??? Both DNS server acted the same way.

RCE

#/usr/sbin/dig arizona1.webair.com

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> arizona1.webair.com 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;;      arizona1.webair.com, type = A, class = IN
;; Total query time: 7 msec
;; FROM: rootdns2 to SERVER: default -- 192.19.192.102
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 15 16:08:30 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 37  rcvd: 37

# /usr/sbin/dig arizona1.webair.com

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> arizona1.webair.com 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;;      arizona1.webair.com, type = A, class = IN
;; Total query time: 7 msec
;; FROM: rootdns2 to SERVER: default -- 192.19.192.102
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 15 16:08:50 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 37  rcvd: 37
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# /usr/sbin/dig arizona1.webair.com

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> arizona1.webair.com 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;;      arizona1.webair.com, type = A, class = IN
;; Total query time: 5006 msec
;; FROM: rootdns2 to SERVER: default -- 192.19.192.102
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 15 16:12:01 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 37  rcvd: 37

# /usr/sbin/dig arizona1.webair.com

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> arizona1.webair.com 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;;      arizona1.webair.com, type = A, class = IN
arizona1.webair.com.    1D IN A         216.130.161.155
webair.com.             1D IN NS        ns.webair.com.
webair.com.             1D IN NS        ns2.webair.com.
ns.webair.com.          1D IN A         216.130.161.1
ns2.webair.com.         1D IN A         216.130.161.6
;; Total query time: 23 msec
;; FROM: rootdns2 to SERVER: default -- 192.19.192.102
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 15 16:12:05 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 37  rcvd: 120

# /usr/sbin/dig arizona1.webair.com

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> arizona1.webair.com 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;;      arizona1.webair.com, type = A, class = IN
arizona1.webair.com.    23h59m55s IN A  216.130.161.155
webair.com.             23h59m55s IN NS  ns.webair.com.
webair.com.             23h59m55s IN NS  ns2.webair.com.
ns.webair.com.          23h59m55s IN A  216.130.161.1
ns2.webair.com.         23h59m55s IN A  216.130.161.6
;; Total query time: 9 msec
;; FROM: rootdns2 to SERVER: default -- 192.19.192.102
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 15 16:12:10 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 37  rcvd: 120