unable to resolve one specific domain (hotmail.co.uk)

[Faehl, Chris]

According to msnhst at microsoft.com, this problem should now be fixed (that's the extent of the communication I received, in fact. We've since removed "query-source address * port 53" from our confs, which did workaround the problem, so can't yet provide independent verification.

-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of x_bind-users_x at nospam.pz.podzone.net
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:50 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: unable to resolve one specific domain (hotmail.co.uk)

> We are also seeing this problem, identical behavior with regards to
> dig. A network sniff shows that we're sending our (UDP) queries to
> ns1, ns3, and ns4.msft.net, but we're never getting any response
> from those servers. This is occurring in multiple datacenters, but
> not everywhere, 

right, thanks for that.  It confirms at least it's not a dodgy
[mis]configuration on my part, which was my assumption to start with.

What's interesting is that 'dig +trace hotmail.co.uk' works fine,
whereas bind itself fails to make contact.

What version of bind do you see (and not see) the problem with?  

Here it's 9.2.4. on both servers, and neither can resolve
hotmail.co.uk.