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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I have figured out and resolved my issue. For some reason I could not read the contents of the db.rootcache file. So I deleted and downloaded a new copy. Now everything is working. Thx to all for your assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Mark </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Moore, Mark A. <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 17, 2010 1:10 PM<br><b>To:</b> bind-users@lists.isc.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Nslookup not working for external domain<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We are running into a issue where one of our slave servers isn’t resolving non-local domain names. For the two domains hosted on this server, we can resolve any entry. However, if we try to do an nslookup to cnn, google, yahoo, etc. it fails. We have turned off iptables and verified internet connectivity. Below is the error we get. What other areas should we be looking at to troubleshoot?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thx in advance for any help given.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>nslookup www.cnn.com<br>;; Got SERVFAIL reply from 192.243.160.18, trying next server<br>Server: 192.243.130.42<br>Address: 192.243.130.42#53<br><br>Non-authoritative answer:<br>Name: www.cnn.com<br>Address: 157.166.226.26<br>Name: www.cnn.com<br>Address: 157.166.255.18<br>Name: www.cnn.com<br>Address: 157.166.255.19<br>Name: www.cnn.com<br>Address: 157.166.224.25<br>Name: www.cnn.com<br>Address: 157.166.224.26<br>Name: www.cnn.com<br>Address: 157.166.226.25<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#1F497D'>Mark<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>