Many reports of this type of problem...

[Gary Wallis]

DNS people,

CentOS 5 BIND rpm (9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5 ) widespread problem 
reports for a significant number of domains on amazonaws.com.

+trace fails but "direct" dig returns "valid" data, please look through 
the output below since it is shorter than trying to summarize:

[root at node1vm unxsVZ]# dig @8.8.8.8 www.nourishinteractive.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 <<>> @8.8.8.8 
www.nourishinteractive.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40337
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.nourishinteractive.com.    IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.nourishinteractive.com. 5753 IN     CNAME 
ec2-174-129-200-33.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
ec2-174-129-200-33.compute-1.amazonaws.com. 5754 IN A 174.129.200.33

;; Query time: 1623 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8)
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 24 01:53:31 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 113

[root at node1vm unxsVZ]# dig @8.8.8.8 www.nourishinteractive.com +short
ec2-174-129-200-33.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
174.129.200.33
[root at node1vm unxsVZ]# dig @8.8.8.8 www.nourishinteractive.com +trace

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 <<>> @8.8.8.8 
www.nourishinteractive.com +trace
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       61990   IN      NS      d.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      m.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      i.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      k.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      a.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      e.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      b.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      j.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      c.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      h.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      l.root-servers.net.
.                       61990   IN      NS      g.root-servers.net.
;; Received 228 bytes from 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) in 1456 ms

com.                    172800  IN      NS      a.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      b.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      c.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      d.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      e.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      f.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      g.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      h.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      i.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      j.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      k.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      l.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      m.gtld-servers.net.
;; Received 507 bytes from 202.12.27.33#53(m.root-servers.net) in 15032 ms

nourishinteractive.com. 172800  IN      NS      ns3.worldnic.com.
nourishinteractive.com. 172800  IN      NS      ns4.worldnic.com.
;; Received 121 bytes from 192.5.6.30#53(a.gtld-servers.net) in 35649 ms

;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet.
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
;; communications error to 205.178.190.2#53: end of file
www.nourishinteractive.com. 7200 IN     CNAME 
ec2-174-129-200-33.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
.                       518400  IN      NS      a.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      b.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      c.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      d.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      e.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      g.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      h.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      i.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      j.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      k.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      l.root-servers.net.
.                       518400  IN      NS      m.root-servers.net.
;; Received 516 bytes from 206.188.198.2#53(ns4.worldnic.com) in 6955 ms

[root at node1vm unxsVZ]#


Anybody have an explanation for this?

Cheers!
Gary