help needed solving DNS puzzle (possible referral loop)

Kipp Teague teague at nospam-x-retroweb.com
Thu Aug 12 18:34:47 UTC 1999


teague-nospam-x at admvax.lynchburg.edu wrote:

>
>Microsoft DNS running under Windows NT Service Pack 5
>is intermittently failing to translate domain "retroweb.com" which
>is hosted by domain hosting service smarthosting.com.
>
>This can be observed by attempting to translate retroweb.com
>via lcol-cain-pdc.lynchburg.edu and then translating via non-MS
>DNS server acavax.lynchburg.edu
>

My DSP has added authority records for retroweb.com
to all name servers, to this problem has been eliminated.
However, check out "buy.com" on the above-listed
nameservers to witness the Microsoft DNS bug.

Kipp Teague
Lynchburg College



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