authoritative server lame for subdomain delegation?

[Guido Roeskens]

Hello,

googlenews at claireandjoe.com wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Inside the zonefile for the parent zone (foo.state.us) is a delegation:
> 
> city    IN  NS ns1-auth.sprintlink.net.
>         IN  NS ns2-auth.sprintlink.net.
>         IN  NS ns3-auth.sprintlink.net.
> 
> 
> If I were to query our ISP's secondary nameserver:
> 
>      dig @ourISP city.foo.state.us ns
> 
> They return the list of nameservers just as they should.  But when we
> query our own server, we get:
> 
>      dig @localhost city.foo.state.us ns
try
dig @localhost city.foo.state.us ns +norec
what's your result then?
a) SERVFAIL: your zone file maight have an error in it
b) the records you want: maybe it's a lame delegation.
> 
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 1507
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> 

Guido