resolving problems when some authoritative servers are down

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c8gs8c$29mm$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "John Baker" <notanaddress at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Okay. Here we go again.
> 
> Would there be any consequences that four of the five servers for usmc.mil
> return data for an NS query for imefdm.usmc.mil but one of them refuses the
> query?

I get a SERVFAIL error from the last server, not REFUSED.

Inconsistent responses like this can definitely cause problems, and 
they'll likely be intermittent because it depends on which server you 
happen to query.

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