Resolving a specific domain cause problems

[Brad Knowles]

At 1:02 PM +0200 2005-06-27, a.r.kuiters at kpn.com wrote:

>  We've a problem with a specific domain, our DNS will not resolve it. It
>  seems that once in an hour we are getting a response from the authoritive
>  DNS which results in the unreachability of the whole domain.
>  We're running BIND 9.2.0. Does anybody has an idea of what goes wrong here?

	There's a whole host of things that could be wrong.  But without 
giving us the name of the domain you're having problems with, that 
keeps us from being able to give you a whole lot of help.

	First off, 9.2.0 is pretty old, and I think there are some fairly 
important security holes that are known to be in that code.  If 
you're going to stick with the 9.2.x tree, you should at least update 
to the latest version.  You could also update to the latest version 
of the 9.3.x tree.  After updating, if you still have a problem, let 
us know.

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