Some ISPs can't resolve some of my domains some of the time

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c0dloe$86a$1 at sf1.isc.org>, phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

> Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > In article <c0ckn4$2jqp$1 at sf1.isc.org>, phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:
> 
> >> You might find that this group deals with bind, the standards-conformant 
> >> dns-server. Your issues with a propetary dns-munger is best dealth with
> >> your vendor. 
> 
> > If his problem is with the data he's putting into the zone, does it 
> > really matter what brand of software he's using?
> 
> That is a big *IF* 

Another poster had already explained the problem, so it wasn't much of 
an IF.

> If on the other hand the problems are from the MS implementation
> the sooner he turns to his vendor the sooner he will have the problems
> resolved.

Since he told us the domain in his original message, all you had to do 
was a couple of queries to see if the server is answering properly.

And AFAIK, there aren't many eggregious problems with MS's DNS server.  
There are some issues related to things like Active Directory, but as a 
basic DNS server it works OK.  It's no worse than many of the old 
releases of BIND that are still in use all over the Internet.

BTW, IIRC, his original message said he was using Windows 2000, but 
didn't actually specify what DNS software he was using.  So for all we 
know he's using the Windows port of BIND, not Microsoft's DNS, unless 
you did a version.bind query before responding.>

> 
> > To the OP: General DNS questions can be posted in 
> > comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains, and then you won't get useless responses 
> > like the above.
> 
> I'm useless these days :-)

Only when you shoot from the hip before doing a miniscule amount of 
checking.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA