Trouble With One Domain

[bsfinkel at anl.gov]

Frank Bulk wrote:
>> If you change the nameservers for IllinoisAcceleratorInstitute.org at its
>> registrar to point to t1dns1.anl.gov and t1dns2.anl.gov you should be good
>> to go.

and Andy Shellam <andy-lists at networkmail.eu> replied:
>And not forgetting to change the master server in the SOA record from 
>oxygen, as that server doesn't appear to be accepting DNS requests, 
>which I believe is what's causing the Zone Check tool to fail.


Why should we change the master server in the SOA record from oxygen,
when oxygen is the real master?  It is a "hidden" master.  I believe
that it is the CNAME that is causing zonecheck.fr to fail.  The
zonecheck.fr utility does not fail on our other zones that have a hidden
master.
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