Domain non-existent

[John Tan]

Thanks again Mark. Your very helpful. But one question though :
If that were the case, then why is pridns.ncs.com.sg able to successfully 
query my DNS for the info while the others were not ?


>From: marka at isc.org
>To: "John Tan" <d_name at hotmail.com>
>CC: bind-users at isc.org, phil46 at pacific.net.sg
>Subject: Re: Domain non-existent
>Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 22:42:38 +1000
>
>	The problem is that the parent domain (gov.sg) has not been
>	updated.  While both pridns.gov.sg and secdns.gov.sg know about
>	sgnews.gov.sg as they are also servers for sgnews.gov.sg the
>	rest of the servers for gov.sg do not and hence the NXDOMAINs.
>
>	The zone gov.sg zone needs to be updated and pushed to the
>	secondaries.
>
>	Mark
> >
> > Hi all
> >
> > I have a problem. From the dns server pridns.gov.sg, I am able to query
> > sgnews.gov.sg domain. from pridns.ncs.com.sg it is also ok.
> > but from other dns servers eg. pridns.cyberway.com.sg it does not work. 
>The
> > ttl is 6 hours and I have already incremented the serial no.
> > and it is long after 6 hours. Am I paranoid or should I wait longer ?
> > Previosuly I had already incremented the s/no but just did it again 
>today..
> > MY DNS logs show no errors on both primary and sec.
> >
> > below is the output :
> >
> > >sgnews.gov.sg.
> > Server:  pridns.cyberway.com.sg
> > Address:  203.116.1.78
> >
> > *** pridns.cyberway.com.sg can't find sgnews.gov.sg.:Non-existent
> > host/domain
> > >server pridns.ncs.com.sg.
> > Default Server:  pridns.ncs.com.sg
> > Address:  203.116.16.16
> >
> > >sgnews.gov.sg.
> > Server:  pridns.ncs.com.sg
> > Address:  203.116.16.16
> >
> > Non-authoritative answer:
> > sgnews.gov.sg
> >         origin = pridns.gov.sg
> >         mail address = root.pridns.gov.sg
> >         serial = 1999081201
> >         refresh = 14400 (4H)
> >         retry   = 7200 (2H)
> >         expire  = 604800 (1W)
> >         minimum ttl = 21600 (6H)
> > sgnews.gov.sg   nameserver = pridns.gov.sg
> > sgnews.gov.sg   nameserver = secdns.gov.sg
> > sgnews.gov.sg   preference = 10, mail exchanger = hydra.gov.sg
> > sgnews.gov.sg   preference = 20, mail exchanger = medusa.internet.gov.sg
> >
> > Authoritative answers can be found from:
> > sgnews.gov.sg   nameserver = pridns.gov.sg
> > sgnews.gov.sg   nameserver = secdns.gov.sg
> > pridns.gov.sg   internet address = 160.96.179.4
> > secdns.gov.sg   internet address = 160.96.128.4
> > hydra.gov.sg    internet address = 160.96.179.6
> > medusa.internet.gov.sg  internet address = 160.96.179.7
> > >
> >
> >
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