Strange problem with resolution

[kenneth.reeves at verizon.com]

Thanks for the quick reply, but I found out what was wrong, and I'm
embarrassed to admit this, but I had everything right, compiled,
installed, everything, but was starting an old version of BIND.
Thanks,
Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy C. Reed [mailto:Jeremy_Reed at isc.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:02 PM
To: Reeves, Kenneth W.
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Strange problem with resolution

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, kenneth.reeves at verizon.com wrote:

> I'm having a strange problem with 9.5.0-P1.  We upgraded from 9.2.3
last
> week.  Since then we have had problems with resolution of some domains
> and not others.  For example, we can't get resolution from the root
name
> servers for Microsoft.com, yahoo.com, msnbc.com, hotmail.com.  We can
> get it for dell.com, hp.com, cisco.com, novell.com and most others.
We
> put a sniffer on the wire going out to the internet and the queries
were
> going out but nothing was coming back for those domains.  We then
> reverted back to 9.2.3 and all is working well again.  We are using
the
> same conf and zone files.  Nothing has changed.  We have updated our
> db.root file, but that has not helped.  Any ideas.  This is compiled
and
> running on Solaris 9.

Replying again (after I read again :)

Try to look them up manually using dig on same server using same remote 
nameservers.