I can't gethost but other can.....

[Simon Waters]

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David Botham wrote:
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org
[mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
>>Behalf Of Dermot Paikkos
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:57 AM
>>To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org; David Botham
>>Subject: RE: I can't gethost but other can.....
>>
>>David,
>>How come others get on the site and not us? It makes sense that my
>>lookup are timed out if I need a response from an authority
but can't
>>my name server just accept the records from a non-authoritive
>>source?
>
>
> No, your name server can't get the information from a
non-authoritative
> source.

I think Dermot has a second problem as he reports Phage as
pingable but not answering DNS queries, but Phage answers me,
sound like it could be firewall or security setting related.

One name server can result in a risk of down time, but I don't
think cshl.org is configured so bad as not to work, just to
break easily.

However since Dermot reports it as pingable I can only assume it
is something particular to Phage that doesn't like Dermot's servers.

If it is the only correct fix is for Phages administrator to fix
it anyway.

I noted both the servers allow AXFR, so a workaround exists.

Dermot what exactly do you type to get failure to resolve.

Does "dig +norec @143.48.1.1 cshl.org any" work from the problem
name server?
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