Unable to resolve anything on "fannindemocrats.org" domain?

[Barrett (Barry) W. Clark]

Hello,

First, sorry for the length of this e-mail, I just want to be as thorough 
as possible.

I am having a very strange problem with the domain "fannindemocrats.org". 
(We are NOT authoritative for this domain.)

I have 3 DNS servers.  NS1 and NS2 are running Bind 9.2.3 on FreeBSD 4.8 
and NS3 is running DJBDNS (TinyDNS, an internal DNSCache and an external 
DNSCache) also on FreeBSD 4.8.  NS1 is the master. NS2 and NS3 are slaves.

On the BIND servers, I cannot query anything on the "fannindemocrats.org" 
domain.

ns1# host fannindemocrats.org
Host not found, try again.
ns1#

ns2# host fannindemocrats.org
Host not found, try again.
ns2#

But it does work on NS3.

ns3# host fannindemocrats.org
fannindemocrats.org has address 216.97.23.154
fannindemocrats.org mail is handled (pri=10) by mail.fannindemocrats.org
ns3#

My resolv.conf has:
ns1# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver      0.0.0.0
ns1#

ns2# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver      0.0.0.0
ns2#

ns3# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver      127.0.0.1
ns3#

and the hosts files do not have a listing for fannindemocrats.org.

ns1# grep fannindemocrats.org /etc/hosts
ns1#

ns2# grep fannindemocrats.org /etc/hosts
ns2#

ns3# grep fannindemocrats.org /etc/hosts
ns3#

A whois lookup shows the authoritative name servers to be NS.NTES.NET and 
NS2.NTES.NET and I can directly query them from the name servers and it 
resolves properly.

ns1# host fannindemocrats.org NS.NTES.NET
Using domain server:
Name: NS.NTES.NET
Addresses: 216.97.100.65

fannindemocrats.org has address 216.97.23.154
fannindemocrats.org mail is handled (pri=10) by mail.fannindemocrats.org
ns1# host fannindemocrats.org NS2.NTES.NET
Using domain server:
Name: NS2.NTES.NET
Addresses: 216.97.101.65

fannindemocrats.org has address 216.97.23.154
fannindemocrats.org mail is handled (pri=10) by mail.fannindemocrats.org
ns1#

ns2# host fannindemocrats.org NS.NTES.NET
Using domain server:
Name: NS.NTES.NET
Addresses: 216.97.100.65

fannindemocrats.org has address 216.97.23.154
fannindemocrats.org mail is handled (pri=10) by mail.fannindemocrats.org
ns2# host fannindemocrats.org NS2.NTES.NET
Using domain server:
Name: NS2.NTES.NET
Addresses: 216.97.101.65

fannindemocrats.org has address 216.97.23.154
fannindemocrats.org mail is handled (pri=10) by mail.fannindemocrats.org
ns2#

ns3# host fannindemocrats.org NS.NTES.NET
Using domain server:
Name: NS.NTES.NET
Addresses: 216.97.100.65

fannindemocrats.org has address 216.97.23.154
fannindemocrats.org mail is handled (pri=10) by mail.fannindemocrats.org
ns3# host fannindemocrats.org NS2.NTES.NET
Using domain server:
Name: NS2.NTES.NET
Addresses: 216.97.101.65

fannindemocrats.org has address 216.97.23.154
fannindemocrats.org mail is handled (pri=10) by mail.fannindemocrats.org
ns3#

But any query to NS1 and NS2 for the domain "fannindemocrats.org" fail.

There is not a zone record for the domain "fannindemocrats.org" in my 
named.conf files.

ns1# grep fannindemocrats.org *named.conf
ns1#

ns2# grep fannindemocrats.org *named.conf
ns2#

and I know I do not have a zones file for the domain.

ns1# ls -l /etc/namedb/master-files | grep fannindemocrats.org
ns1#

ns2# ls -l /etc/namedb/slave-files | grep fannindemocrats.org
ns2#

I did a query from NS1 to NS2

ns1# host fannindemocrats.org ns2.texoma.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns2.texoma.net
Addresses: 209.151.96.66

Host not found, try again.
ns1#

and NS2's log showed

ns2# grep fannindemocrats.org named.log
Jul 07 12:37:21.329 client 209.151.96.2#6652: query: fannindemocrats.org IN A
Jul 07 12:37:21.329 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org A
Jul 07 12:37:26.334 client 209.151.96.2#6652: query: fannindemocrats.org IN A
Jul 07 12:37:26.334 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org A
Jul 07 12:37:31.344 client 209.151.96.2#6653: query: fannindemocrats.org IN 
AAAA
Jul 07 12:37:31.344 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org AAAA
Jul 07 12:37:36.354 client 209.151.96.2#6653: query: fannindemocrats.org IN 
AAAA
Jul 07 12:37:36.354 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org AAAA
Jul 07 12:37:41.364 client 209.151.96.2#6654: query: fannindemocrats.org IN MX
Jul 07 12:37:41.364 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org MX
Jul 07 12:37:46.374 client 209.151.96.2#6654: query: fannindemocrats.org IN MX
Jul 07 12:37:46.374 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org MX
Jul 07 12:37:51.384 client 209.151.96.2#6655: query: 
fannindemocrats.org.texoma.net IN A
Jul 07 12:37:51.385 client 209.151.96.2#6656: query: 
fannindemocrats.org.texoma.net IN AAAA
Jul 07 12:37:51.386 client 209.151.96.2#6657: query: 
fannindemocrats.org.texoma.net IN MX
Jul 07 12:37:51.387 client 209.151.96.2#6658: query: fannindemocrats.org IN A
Jul 07 12:37:51.387 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org A
Jul 07 12:37:56.394 client 209.151.96.2#6658: query: fannindemocrats.org IN A
Jul 07 12:37:56.394 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org A
Jul 07 12:38:01.404 client 209.151.96.2#6659: query: fannindemocrats.org IN 
AAAA
Jul 07 12:38:01.405 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org AAAA
Jul 07 12:38:06.414 client 209.151.96.2#6659: query: fannindemocrats.org IN 
AAAA
Jul 07 12:38:06.415 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org AAAA
Jul 07 12:38:11.425 client 209.151.96.2#6660: query: fannindemocrats.org IN MX
Jul 07 12:38:11.425 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org MX
Jul 07 12:38:16.435 client 209.151.96.2#6660: query: fannindemocrats.org IN MX
Jul 07 12:38:16.435 createfetch: fannindemocrats.org MX
ns2#

As far as I know, this is the only domain that shows this behavior.

Any ideas or suggestions on what could be the issue?

Thank you for your help!

Sincerely,

Barrett (Barry) W. Clark