Server Fail errors

[Barry Margolin]

In article <blf0re$17a6$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Brett Simpson  <simpsonb at hillsboroughcounty.org> wrote:
>On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:58 am, Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
>> 	Yes.  The zone is broken.  The nameservers it is delegated to
>> 	don't have address (or any other) records in the that contains
>> 	them.
>
>Are their any side affects to this? For example could a Server Fail message 
>cause our Border Manager (a Novell product) to treat our DNS servers as 
>failed.

No, it shouldn't.  It's an error specific to the particular name being
looked up, not a problem with the server in general.  They're quite common
due to all the misconfigured nameservers out there, and there's nothing you
can do on your server to prevent it.

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
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