DNS Looping Issue

[Kevin Darcy]

There's no "looping" going on. Whenever an iterative resolver gets an 
"upwards" referral like this, it considers that a bad response and tries 
to get the information from another nameserver for the domain. In this 
case, both ns1.granitecanyon.com and ns2.granitecanyon.com (which is 
responding to me) are giving this "upwards referral", so if the 
efeingold.com domain were delegated to these 2 nameservers, the 
iterative resolver would consider them both "lame" and simply fail out.

Presumably the Granite Canyon nameservers are giving out upwards 
referrals because the efeingold.com domain hasn't been created/defined 
on them yet. Take that up with Granite Canyon.

                                                                         
                                                   - Kevin

joshfeingold at gmail.com wrote:

>I tried setting up both primary and secondary dns with
>granitecanyon.com
>My zone file is below...
>
>The issue that I am having is that when I point my domain (hosted at
>aplus.net) to the ns1.granitecanyon.com and ns2.granitecanyon.com after
>the dns propagates my domain is not working as expected.
>
>I tried using the tools at http://network-tools.com/nslook/Default.asp
>to see what records were being returned by granitecanyon name servers
>for my domain and to be honest, they don't look correct at all - ns1
>returns the root servers and ns2 times out.
>
>Any ideas what is going wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>Josh
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>efeingold.com. 43200 IN SOA ns1.granitecanyon.com.
>joshfeingold.gmail.com. (344162457 21600 10800 1728000 43200)
>efeingold.com. IN NS ns1.granitecanyon.com.
>efeingold.com. IN NS ns2.granitecanyon.com.
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>efeingold.com. IN RP joshfeingold.hotmail.com.
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>localhost.efeingold.com. IN A 127.0.0.1
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>efeingold.com. IN A 208.48.143.44
>efeingold.com. IN A 208.48.143.76
>efeingold.com. IN A 208.48.143.88
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>www.efeingold.com. IN CNAME efeingold.nfshost.com.
>www.efeingold.com. IN CNAME efeingold.com.
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>efeingold.com. IN MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
>efeingold.com. IN MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
>efeingold.com. IN MX 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
>efeingold.com. IN MX 10 ASPMX2.L.GOOGLE.COM.
>efeingold.com. IN MX 10 ASPMX3.L.GOOGLE.COM.
>efeingold.com. IN MX 10 ASPMX4.L.GOOGLE.COM.
>efeingold.com. IN MX 10 ASPMX5.L.GOOGLE.COM.
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