Server unable to resolve certain domain.

[James A Griffin]

kmcelwain at pointcloud.com wrote:
> 
> It's zap3d.net as below.  Here's the debug from dig and named's still
> below.  I can't figure out why my name server can't resolve this domain.
> 
[snip]

While networksolutions (whois) thinks that pointcloud.com's name servers
should know about zap3d.n35, it seems that pointcloud.com does not know
anything about zap3d.net.

Doc-2.2.1: Test date - Thu May 24 10:18:26 EDT 2001
Note: Skipping parent domain testing
Found 3 NS and 3 glue records for zap3d.net. @a.gtld-servers.net.
(non-AUTH)
Using NSlist from parent domain server a.gtld-servers.net.
NS list summary for zap3d.net. from parent (net.) servers
  == ns1.pointcloud.com. ns2.pointcloud.com. ns3.pointcloud.com.
soa @ns1.pointcloud.com. for zap3d.net. serial:
ERROR: no SOA record for zap3d.net. from ns1.pointcloud.com.
soa @ns2.pointcloud.com. for zap3d.net. serial:
ERROR: no SOA record for zap3d.net. from ns2.pointcloud.com.
soa @ns3.pointcloud.com. for zap3d.net. serial:
ERROR: no SOA record for zap3d.net. from ns3.pointcloud.com.
SYSerr: No servers for zap3d.net. returned SOAs ...
Summary:
   YIKES: doc aborted while testing zap3d.net.  parent net.
   ERRORS found for zap3d.net. (count: 3)
   Incomplete test for zap3d.net. (1)
Done testing zap3d.net.  Thu May 24 10:18:30 EDT 2001