The Lost Domain - fidalgo.net

[David I. Gaines]

I fixed this by loading the record into my cache by setting domain=ISP
DOMAIN NAME in nslookup.  Then enter fidalgo.net.  The lookup will be
successful and the cache will now be loaded with it.  All lookups for
this domain should now be successful.

Dave

Greg McCann wrote:
> 
> I occasionally have trouble resolving one external domain or another.  Right
> now, my DNS server (bind 8.2.2) is unable to resolve "fidalgo.net".  However if
> I use my ISP's DNS server, they are able to find it.  (fidalgo.net is an
> external domain to me, and is completely unrelated to either my domain or my
> ISP's domain)
> 
> Here's what I found out so far...
> 
> Nameservers for fidalgo.net are ns1.fidalgo.net (206.129.156.2) and
> ns2.fidalgo.net (206.191.182.5).  ns2.fidalgo.net seems to be dead (unpingable)
> at the moment.  ns1.fidalgo.net appears to be ok.
> 
> However when I "set type=NS" it looks like my nameserver thinks that
> ns2.fidalgo.net is authoritative for fidalgo.net.  If I "set type=MX" and try to
> lookup fidalgo.net, I get "can't find fidalgo.net - Non-existent host/domain".
> Apparently my nameserver only knows about the now-dead ns2.fidalgo.net and can't
> figure out that it should be trying to get information from ns1.fidalgo.net
> instead.
> 
> The root of the problem seems to be at their end, but how can I fix or work
> around this problem on my end?
> 
> Greg
> 
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