nslookup: server failed

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Hi all,
> Yesterday when I wanted to defile a new zone on
> NS.AFRANET.COM, named iraniec.com, I encountered a
> strange problem. When I do nslookup on NS.AFRANET.COM
> with "set type=ns", it returns the name servers
> correctly. But it neither resolves the SOA nor the A
> records, it returns "ns.afranet.com can't find
> iraniec.com: Server failed".Although when I dump the
> named cache, I see that all domains I host are listed
> at zone table, except this newly defined domain. When
> I tried to create this zone on another DNS machine,
> everything went OK!! 
> I do not know what is the problem with ns.afranet.com
> . When I watched syslog messages, I visited these
> messages:
> "ns_forw: query(iraniec.com) contains our addres
> s (NS.AFRANET.COM:213.166.26.2)"
> Those anybody have an idea about the problem?

	What errors did you get when you loaded the zone into the
	nameserver?
	You did add the zone to named.conf and reload?


	Mark
> 
> Best Regards
> Hoomaan Naimi
> Afranet Network Administrator
> 
> 
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