Servfail When Resolving certain domains

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9v3bfr$lg0 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
England, Robert (Robert) <england at northamerica.exchange.agere.com> wrote:
>
>Isn't there a way around this? If I do a 
>
>zone "zaiqtech.com" in {
>      type forward;
>      forwarders { 206.34.200.2; 206.34.200.3; };
>};
>
>in our named.conf the mail gets sent and everybody is happy. But I don't
>want to have to do this for every domain that I find an error for. I have
>tried sending the domain admin in the SOA an email, but I don't have the
>time to track down every admin to tell them they have DNS issues. 
>
>Why does the zone forward work? I saw the NS record issues but I still need
>to understand why the zone forward works and not the straight DNS query that
>follows the top down approach (db.cache) that for 99% of the domains we
>email daily.

Probably because the zone forward prevents your server from trying to query the
servers listed in the NS records:

zaiqtech.com. IN NS	riker.zaiqtech.com.
zaiqtech.com. IN NS	data.zaiqtech.com.


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