No servers can be reached

[Ken Smith]

Any ideas on how I should explain this to the ISP Earthlink who bought the ISP
onemain.com who bought out  ISP thegrid.net.
Ken

Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

> >
> > When we do a  nslookup -query=mx thegrid.net  ns.pathstar.com using our
> > nameserver running RH 7.1 & Bind 9.1  we get the following error:
> > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> >
> > Everything has worked fine till we switched from RH 7.0 & Bind 8.2.3 (We
> > use this box as a nameserver only)
> >
> > If we use someone elses nameserver i.e.  nslookup -query=mx thegrid.net
> > 204.127.129.1 the correct infomation is returned.
> > Our webhosting customers resolve correctly in our nameservers
> > (ns.pathstar.com and ns2.pathstar.com) we  provide webhosting and email
> > services only. This problem was brought to our attentionlast  week when
> > we could not forward mail to a  thegrid.net email address.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas.
>
>         Yes.  The delegation for thegrid.net is stuffed.  Different sets
>         of nameservers in the zone compared to the parent (net) zone.
>
>         Mark
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