How good is BIND?

[Skeeve Stevens]

Is your firewall filtering queries perhaps?

...Skeeve


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org 
> [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf Of Von Alt, William
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2001 12:06 AM
> To: 'bind-users at isc.org'
> Subject: RE: How good is BIND?
> 
> 
> 
> Hey guys and gals!  Here is an interesting one:
> 
> Delegating a new domain to be called gjo.doe.gov.  The 
> organization's current domain is doegjpo.com, and they wish 
> to gradually move to the new one.  Their nameservers are 
> ernest.doegjpo.com and eagle.doegjpo.com, and mine are 
> fulcrum.doe.gov and foxbat.doe.gov.
> 
> They have A records for ernest.gjo.doe.gov and 
> eagle.gjo.doe.gov that point to the same IP as 
> ernest.doegjpo.com and eagle.doegjpo.com, respectively.
> 
> On my nameservers, if I delegate the gjo.doe.gov domain to 
> the two doegjpo.com nameservers, everything works fine, but 
> it's not the config. I want.  If I delegate the domain to the 
> two gjo.doe.gov nameservers (same machines, just different A 
> records), my config. doesn't work.  [nslookup and dig "hangs" 
> when queried for anything about the domain, e.g. SOA records 
> for gjo.doe.gov]
> 
> I can't figure out what the difference is between using the 
> doegjpo.com and the gjo.doe.gov domains if the IPs are the 
> same in their files.  Any hints on what I'm missing?  Thanks 
> in advance!
> 
> -William Von Alt
>  Verizon
>  301.903.2710
> 
>