bind bug? Servers loosing all but 1 ns record

[Mike Ireton]

Hello all, I have a devil of a problem to share with you:

	My domain is 'atomic-ether.net', and I've got two name servers -
ns1.atomic-ether.net and ns2.atomic-ether.net. About 6 weeks ago, the
ns1 machine went away, and I figured that I  could just let it slide for
a while until I have the energy to put an 'ns1' back on the air (this is
for a home lan connected via dsl). 

	There appears to be a problem in that some remote name servers
eventually 'forget' an ns record for mydomain, so if you query them,
they will return the following: 

> set q=ns
> atomic-ether.net
Server:  ns1.sonic.net
Address:  208.201.224.11

Non-authoritative answer:
atomic-ether.net        nameserver = NS2.atomic-ether.net
atomic-ether.net        nameserver = NS1.atomic-ether.net

Authoritative answers can be found from:
NS1.atomic-ether.net    internet address = 209.218.202.226


	WHY does it only return the pointer for 'ns1.atomic-ether.net'? That
means, in order to resolve 'ns2.atomic-ether.net', it's first got to be
able to resolve 'atomic-ether.net', which means it can only get to
'ns1', which is off the air.....

	The zone file for 'atomic-ether.net' is included for reference:
@               IN      SOA     atomic-ether.net.      
qix.atomic-ether.net. (
                        2001010600 ; serial
                        86400 ; refresh
                        3600 ; retry
                        3600000 ; expire
                        300 ; default_ttl
                        )
@       86400   IN      NS      ns1.atomic-ether.net.
@       86400   IN      NS      ns2.atomic-ether.net.
@               IN      A       127.0.0.1
@               IN      MX      10      ns2.atomic-ether.net.
@               IN      MX      20      core.sf.bayoffice.net.
ns1.atomic-ether.net.           IN      A       209.218.202.226
ns2.atomic-ether.net.           IN      A       209.218.202.227
ns1             IN      A       209.218.202.226
ns2             IN      A       209.218.202.227
mx              IN      A       209.218.202.226
www             IN      A       209.218.202.226
224             IN      PTR     net-209-218-202-224/27.atomic-ether.net.
226             IN      PTR     ns1.atomic-ether.net.
227             IN      PTR    
ns2.atomic-ether.net.                           


	Any help offered would certainly be appreciated.

Mike-