What an authorative nameserver is down?

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Jan 22 01:28:38 UTC 2003


> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have never come accross this problem before but have experienced it
> twice in a week, so I thought I would ask.
> 
> I recently took a complaint from a user that they could not connect to
> a website. I looked into this, and the issue was one of the domains
> name servers was down.
> 
> I honestly thought that in that situation my nameserver should list
> that server as "unavailable" for a little while and check any of the
> other name servers for the domain it was looking up. This behaviour
> was not occuring, and it meant that people using my DNS server could
> not get to anything inside that domain.
> 
> I running Debian woody, with 8.3.3 supplied by Debian.
> 
> WHat is the ocrrent behaviour for bind if someones nameserver is down?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stewart James

	It will try the other servers.  If you want further help you need
	to supply details like the domain name.  Which servers were down
	etc.

	Mark
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