Stopped hosting site; can't get there from here

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> > Pardon my bad terminology; I don't even know if I'm saying this correctly.
> > Here's an issue I'm hoping to get guidance on:
> >
> > I inherited a system. It used to host widget.org, but widget.org moved to
> > another provider. I removed the db.widget file from /var/named, and I
> > removed all references to widget.org from my db.hostname SOA table. Yet
> > widget.org is not reachable in a browser from within hostname.org's
> network.
> > (Yes, it resolves from outside the network. There is no problem with
> > widget.org on its new provider.) Which seems to indicate to me that I
> missed
> > something in /var/named. Or somewhere else.
> >
> > Would someone kindly tell me what I'm missing?
> 
> After you removed db.widget, did you also remove the zone statement
> for widget.org from named.conf?  After you did that, did you reconfig
> or restart the name server?
> 
> If your resolver caches, did you clear the cache?
> 
> cricket
> 
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> 
	Also /etc/hosts and NIS databases.   Hosts tend to use more
	than the DNS for local resolution.

	Mark
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