I'm Puzzled....

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> I have a couple of questions I am currently running BIND 8.2 something 
> running on a Solaris 7 server and I ran into a weird problem.  I was trying 
> to resolve a site named www.stox.com and at the time that I was trying to 
> resolve www.stox.com the secondary dns server for this domain was 
> down.  When I did an nslookup I received a server not found error but when 
> I used dig I received an answer with the correct IP address.  So my 
> questions are;
> 
> How does that work???????

	nslookup wants the server to be able to lookup its own reverse
	address.

	dig does not have this requirement.

> 
> And, Is there a why to see which server is providing an answer with 
> nslookup or bind?
> 
> Thanks for any ideas.
> 
> Tim
> tim at hoganzoo.com
> 
> 
> 
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