SUMMARY: recursive lookup behavior

[Mark Damrose]

"Joel Fisher" <jfisher at wfubmc.edu> wrote in message
news:a8db1v$ed6 at pub3.rc.vix.com...
>
> I made a stupid assumption that they were setup, and since I don't have
> direct access to them I couldn't make a quick check.

dig can tell you whether or not a server is answering with authority, and
it's much more reliable than looking at the config files.

>
> Our secondary setup is a strange agreement/setup. I wanted to be pretty
> certain I knew what the problem was before I contacted the company that
> hosts our secondary DNS server.

Why settle for pretty certain, when you could test it and be absolutely
certain?