Serious DNS problem making my domain unusable

[jordanr at my-deja.com]

Thanks for the expert advice! I would have never guessed that. The
first time I contacted them they said they problem was with my ISP.
I've contacted them again to see about getting the domain removed from
their DNS...

Jordan Russell

In article <Vt8G3.47$854.1724 at burlma1-snr2>,
  Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote:
> In article <7sb08s$gdl$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <jordanr at my-deja.com>
wrote:
> >This may not be specifically related to bind, but...
> >
> >I am having the biggest problem with a domain (jrsoftware.org)
> >registered through yournamefree.com. Even though I have changed the
DNS
> >servers for the domain to ns1.granitecanyon.com and
> >ns2.granitecanyon.com with Network Solutions over a *week*
> >ago, "nslookup" is still showing my domain as pointing to
> >the "namesdirect.com" servers (what yournamefree.com sets them as by
> >default), according to my ISP's DNS servers:
>
> This is a well-known problem with BIND cache management, which is
supposed
> to be fixed in the next version.  The problem is that every time your
ISP's
> server needs to look something up in the domain, it uses the NS
records in
> its cache to find the servers for your domain.  The cache initially
> contained the old servers.  When that server responds, it includes NS
> records in the Authority Records section of the reply, and the ISP's
server
> updates the TTL of these records in its cache.  So as long as it
keeps on
> doing lookups before the NS records' TTLs expire, it will keep
resetting
> the timeout, and they'll never expire.
>
> The solution is to get the namesdirect.com people to remove the
domain from
> their servers.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
> GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
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>
>


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