lookup timeouts

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38873248.B29F7658 at rconnect.com>,
Ryan Permeh  <rrpermeh at rconnect.com> wrote:
>I'm having some trouble with our main nameserver:
>
>the  setup:  solaris 2.6, bind 8.2.2p3, about 850 zones loaded locally,
>allow-query is set to any.
>
>the problem:
>we have a single domain(it may be more, but no other domain has come to
>out attention) that will time out on any query to our nameserver.  Our
>secondary and tertiary nameservers can find this domain fine, but when
>our primary does a lookup on it, it times out.  I have used ndc to
>perform a named_db.db dump, and have found most of them right in the
>cache part of the dump, including the SOA for the domain we are having
>trouble with.
>the weird part is this:  a complete shutdown and restart will allow
>lookups for this domain to happen correctly for a while, but a HUP will
>not.

What domain?  Most likely, there's a communication problem between your
server and one of the servers that this domain is delegated to.

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