I can't gethost but other can.....

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Dermot Paikkos
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 11:24 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: I can't gethost but other can.....
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am having trouble with a couple of domains (forgive me I did write
> in earlier). No-one at my site can access www.cshl.org or
> aims.org.au. I have to go a7.nstld.com (top-level .org root-server) to
> get any records for the host but users at other sites can get the site
> straight up.
> 
> The NS of this zone seems to be down but the web-server is up.
> However my name-server is not resolving the names properly.

This zone has *only one* name server:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> www.cshl.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.cshl.org.                  IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.cshl.org.           10800   IN      CNAME   skpro.cshl.org.
skpro.cshl.org.         10800   IN      CNAME   tuxpro.cshl.org.
tuxpro.cshl.org.        10800   IN      A       143.48.220.12

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
cshl.org.               10800   IN      NS      phage.cshl.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
phage.cshl.org.         10800   IN      A       143.48.1.1

;; Query time: 570 msec
;; SERVER: 216.248.176.20#53(216.248.176.20)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 18 11:40:33 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 131



If that name server is down, then, I would expect there to be a real
problem resolving names in that zone (that is, it would not be
possible).

Dave...


> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanx.
> Dp.
> 
> 
> ~~
> Dermot Paikkos * dermot at sciencephoto.com
> Network Administrator @ Science Photo Library
> Phone: 0207 432 1100 * Fax: 0207 286 8668