Intermittent name resolution problems

Ronan Flood ronan at noc.ulcc.ac.uk
Tue Aug 31 21:15:45 UTC 2004


Matthew Hoskison <mhoskison at yahoo.com> wrote:

> A customer is reporting an intermittent inability to resolve their domain
> name, babysfirstsite.org, served by ns[1|2].room41.com. Other people have
> no problems resolving the name even during these transient moments.
> 
> I'd appreciate the expert opinion of those on the list as to what would
> cause these intermittent problems for her, whilst I and others experience
> no problems at all.

Have you tried, as I mentioned before back in June, making the TTL on the
NS records in the babysfirstsite.org zone match those for that domain in
the .org zone, i.e.

 babysfirstsite.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.room41.com.
 babysfirstsite.org. 86400 IN NS ns2.room41.com.

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                      Ronan Flood <R.Flood at noc.ulcc.ac.uk>
                        working for but not speaking for
             Network Services, University of London Computer Centre
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