Fwd: netsaint, www.yahoo.com, and akadns.net

[Jobe Bittman]

Hugh-

I had the same problem with netsaint. I don't think it's really a problem 
with bind as much as it's a problem with netsaint's default config. Just 
query a different domain, preferably a domain for which your name server is 
actually authoritative. I think yahoo's name server just get beat to death 
all day long. grep yahoo * in your netsaint directory and change the 
command line to query a different domain.

Jobe Bittman
Terracom Nework Services

>Hello, I run netsaint which is a network monitoring utility that
>monitors about 6 of my name servers.  Netsaint checks the name servers
>about every 5 minutes trying to resolve www.yahoo.com and about once a
>day it reports dns to be down.  But I've checked the name servers that
>are reported down and found that it's only www.yahoo.com that it can't
>resolve.  I get the error message: "Non-existent host/domain" and I've
>run dig on the affected name server with the output below.  My
>question is, can this be fixed?
>
>
>; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @atlantic.intranet www.yahoo.com
>; (1 server found)
>;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>;; got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 6
>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;; QUERY SECTION:
>;;      www.yahoo.com, type = A, class = IN
>
>;; Total query time: 8 msec
>;; FROM: it to SERVER: atlantic.intranet  10.1.1.2
>;; WHEN: Sat Jan 19 02:07:43 2002
>;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 31