bind server fails to deliver

[Jeff Lasman]

Scenario:

Running bind:

<snip>
named 8.2.7-REL Fri Dec 19 02:12:52 PST 2003
        
admin at indraq4.blr03-01.india.sun.com:/home/redhat/BUILD/bind-8.2.7/src/bin/named
</snip>

No choice in the matter at least for the moment; it's a Sun Cobalt RaQ.

Running it on ns3.dnssys.com and on ns5.dnssys.com.

Running it with exactly the same named.conf file on both machines 
(copied over with scp).

Both nameservers are authoritative for 65.58.240.229.

See:

dig @ns2.level3.net -x 65.58.240.229

But...

ns5.dnssys.com is authoritative and does return a response
ns3.dnssys.com returns a SERVFAIL

see:

dig @ns5.dnssys.com -x 65.58.240.229
dig @ns3.dnssys.com -x 65.58.240.229

When we delete the zone file and restart bind, it DOES load a new file 
from the master server (ns1.dnssys.com) but it still continues to 
return a SERVFAIL.

It returns a SERVFAIL for every IP in that in-addr.arpa zone, though it 
does return correct information for another in-addr.arpa zone.

And ns5.dnssys.com works as it should.

Any ideas?

Jeff
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