second lookup fails

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a49dv2$jdl at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Raymond Cummins  <rcummins at netaxs.com> wrote:
>...I do a:
>
>% host ns.raritanval.edu {some name server}
>Using domain server {some name server}:
>ns.raritanval.EDU has address 192.231.207.102
>
>...but the second and each consecutive time:
>
>% host ns.raritanval.edu {same name server}
>Using domain server {same name server}:
>Host not found.
>
>I've tried this against several name servers (BIND 9.3.0, 8.2.3 and 8.2.4
>[not mine!]) with the same results.  Restarting named on the server I'm
>querying against fixes it - for one query and then the lookup starts
>failing again.  ns.raritanval.edu and forecast.raritanval.edu are the only
>hostnames with which I see this problem - www.raritanval.edu works fine
>(resolves every time). 

There's a glue record for the name on the root servers, but there's no
record on the authoritative servers for the domain.

% dig ns.raritanval.edu a @forecast.raritanval.edu +norec

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ns.raritanval.edu a @forecast.raritanval.edu +norec 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 45494
;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	ns.raritanval.edu, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
raritanval.edu.		1H IN SOA	forecast.raritanval.edu. crisko.raritanval.edu. (
					2821211663	; serial
					1H		; refresh
					10M		; retry
					1D		; expiry
					1H )		; minimum

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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