Sporadic resolution problems

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Thu Jun 24 15:39:19 UTC 2004


Matthew Hoskison <mhoskison at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi list,

> I'm having fun and games trying to track down a problem with external name
> resolution to my name server. A number of clients (predominately in the USA)
> can't resolve any zones on my name server - rather ominously including the mail
> servers of ISC and Google. The ISC mail server provides a good example. This
> snippet is taken from /var/log/maillog whilst attempting to post this very
> question:

> Jun 24 11:43:05 alyeska sendmail[29944]: i5O9gZln029698:
> to=<bind9-users at isc.org>, delay=01:00:30, xdelay=00:06:46, mailer=esmtp,
> pri=120543, relay=mx-1.isc.org. [204.152.184.167], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred:
> 450 <matth at room41.net>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found

> The name server in question is ns[12].room41.com. dnsreport.com
> (http://dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=room41.net) shows absolutely
> nothing to be concerned about. It appears that those who can not resolve a
> single zone can not resolve *any* zones served from there, but those who can
> don't have any problems with any other zone. One client who I have been working
> closely with on this issue has babysfirstsite.org served from there. Their ISP
> is comcast, but their configuration does not allow me to query that name server
> directly. From what I've been able to discern, this issue isn't limited to just
> comcast clients, otherwise I'd land the blame wholly and squarely on their
> shoulders.

> ns1 is running 9.1.3 (shortly to be upgraded to 9.3, once this mess has been
> sorted out), and ns2 is running BIND 9.3.0beta4.

> Any help or insights would be very greatly appreciated.

You have a number of "illegal hostnames" , which might add to the confusion.

dld_homepage.room41.com. 
jada_leaine.room41.com. 
wd_april.room41.com. 
wd_bitchit.room41.com.



Except for that remark it _should_ work ok.



> Regards,

> M Hoskison


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