Sporadic resolution problems
Matthew Marshall
matthew.marshall at noaa.gov
Thu Jun 24 18:11:01 UTC 2004
Matthew Hoskison wrote:
>>You have a number of "illegal hostnames" , which might add to the confusion.
>>
>>dld_homepage.room41.com.
>>jada_leaine.room41.com.
>>wd_april.room41.com.
>>wd_bitchit.room41.com.
>>
>>
>>
>>Except for that remark it _should_ work ok.
>>
>>
>
>Strangely enough, it's not those domains causing the problem. All the external
>diagnostic tools I've checked (dnsreport, dnsstuff, etc) show nothing that
>would prevent the names being resolved. The fact that others *can* successfully
>resolve the names suggests to me the problem lies not at my end, but with their
>ISP's.
>
>However, I urge anyone to contradict me if there's something at my end that
>I've missed!
>
You may be correct that the problem does not lie on your end. However,
having non-RFC compliant names in your DNS might not work with other DNS
servers.
--Matt
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