failing lookups

[Bob Puff@NLE]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the reply.

> Of course, this is all assuming that the two nameservers you identified are actually the nameservers published in the NS
> records of the zone. If the zone is delegated to 2 nameservers, but only 1 of them is published in the zone's NS records,
> then the zone's NS records, being more "credible" than the delegation records, will be what named uses
> to resolve names in the zone. Which might explain why the other, unpublished nameserver is being ignored.

I believe this is precisely what was wrong with one of my instances.

A domain I am currently having trouble with is: smsocs.com.  There are a number of errors with their setup; however, I can dig through and get the info.  My problem right now is that my ISP won't talk to dns2.ncal.verio.net, which is one of their nameservers.  Also, one of their other nameservers is down (that is listed in their record).  However, there are a couple that ARE up that WILL give the correct info.. just my Bind won't seem to query them.  It gives up after it tries querying one of the dead servers.

Bob