No servers can be reached

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> When we do a  nslookup -query=mx thegrid.net  ns.pathstar.com using our
> nameserver running RH 7.1 & Bind 9.1  we get the following error:
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> 
> Everything has worked fine till we switched from RH 7.0 & Bind 8.2.3 (We
> use this box as a nameserver only)
> 
> If we use someone elses nameserver i.e.  nslookup -query=mx thegrid.net
> 204.127.129.1 the correct infomation is returned.
> Our webhosting customers resolve correctly in our nameservers
> (ns.pathstar.com and ns2.pathstar.com) we  provide webhosting and email
> services only. This problem was brought to our attentionlast  week when
> we could not forward mail to a  thegrid.net email address.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas.

	Yes.  The delegation for thegrid.net is stuffed.  Different sets
	of nameservers in the zone compared to the parent (net) zone.

	Mark
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