<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt">At about <font face="Arial" size="2">Monday, September 16, 2013 6:54 PM</font><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Arial" size="2"> Dan McDaniel <dan@dm3.us> wrote:<br><br>></font></font>querying the<br>>failed fedora NS. Then it came back with a not found. My company's<br>>networking group said it's the fault of the bad fedora NS.<div><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">If the fedora NS had returned SERVFAIL or if it was not reachable,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">your company's NS WOULD have tried another fedora NS.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">If the fedora NS indeed returned NXDOMAIN or an authoritative NO ANSWER</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">that name server was telling your company's NS that it was certain that</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">the requested domain did not exist.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">They were broken and your company's NS behavior was exemplary.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">HTH,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Len<br></div> </div></body></html>