Problems resolving some domains

[Barry Margolin]

In article <932p56$6om at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Paul Kenyon  <paul.kenyon at pvii.com> wrote:
>The midusa.net user sends mail frequently...  One time, I pinged
>midusa.net, and then it started accepting the mail.  I am guessing that
>my nameserver cached it, and when sendmail tried to verify the domain,
>it worked for some reason.  But why wouldn't it find it on it's own?
>Why are those servers returning an answer non-authoritative?  I don't
>think it's a cache thing, because there are other domains I nslookup
>that always respond authoritative.

A master or slave server will return non-authoritative answers if it
detected a syntax error when loading the zone file.  That's probably what's
going on with midusa.net.

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