What's up with my looping DNS?

Someone someone at somewhere.net
Mon May 30 18:31:54 UTC 2005


If this is the wrong place for this question, please advise.

We changed the nameservers on a domain registered at NetSol.  Both the before and
after nameservers were third-party, not NetSol.  But, after four days, it still wasn't
working.
When we did a query, we'd get stuck in some kind of loop.

Thinking it might be a problem with the third-party nameserver, we changed it to NetSol's
own managed nameservers to see what would happen.  But here we are, days later, and
it's still looping.

What makes this happen?  It's just a simple A record pointing to an IP address, the same
way we've set up hundreds of others without trouble.  I've posted a sample of what we're
getting below.  Notice how it resolves to the right nameserver, ns95.worldnic.com.  But
instead of getting an answer with the IP address, it just refers back out to a root
server.

Thanks.

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Searching for <domain>.org A record at g.root-servers.net [192.112.36.4]: Got referral to
TLD5.ULTRADNS.INFO. [took 149 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at TLD5.ULTRADNS.INFO. [192.100.59.11]: Got referral
to ns95.worldnic.com. [took 5 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at ns95.worldnic.com. [216.168.228.50]: Got referral
to I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [took 8 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [192.36.148.17]: Got referral
to TLD4.ULTRADNS.org. [took 4 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at TLD4.ULTRADNS.org. [199.7.67.1]: Got referral to
ns95.worldnic.com. [took 10 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at ns95.worldnic.com. [216.168.228.50]: Got referral
to K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [took 6 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [193.0.14.129]: Got referral to
tld1.ultradns.net. [took 84 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at tld1.ultradns.net. [204.74.112.1]: Got referral to
ns96.worldnic.com. [took 2 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at ns96.worldnic.com. [216.168.225.236]: Got referral
to L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [took 7 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [198.32.64.12]: Got referral to
TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET. [took 73 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET. [204.74.112.1]: Got referral to
ns96.worldnic.com. [took 3 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at ns96.worldnic.com. [216.168.225.236]: Got referral
to B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [took 7 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [192.228.79.201]: Got referral
to TLD6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK. [took 86 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at TLD6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK. [198.133.199.11]: Got referral
to ns95.worldnic.com. [took 18 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at ns95.worldnic.com. [216.168.228.50]: Got referral
to F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [took 6 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [192.5.5.241]: Got referral to
TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET. [took 54 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET. [204.74.112.1]: Got referral to
ns95.worldnic.com. [took 3 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at ns95.worldnic.com. [216.168.228.50]: Got referral
to H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [took 5 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. [128.63.2.53]: Got referral to
TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET. [took 11 ms]
Searching for <domain>.org A record at TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET. [204.74.113.1]: Got referral to
ns96.worldnic.com. [took 14 ms]




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