No name resolution when slave is down

[John Wobus]

Actually, master and slave has little (read "nothing") to do with 
whether the domain resolves.
What's relevant are the delegation records pointing to your domain and 
the authoritative
records for the two servers.  In a normal, straight-forward setup for 
one master and
one slave, both servers would be listed in the authoritative data as 
well as the delegation records
within the delegating zone, and if one server were down, the other 
server could be found
and queried.

John

On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Dennis J. wrote:

> Hi,
> This morning the slave in our nameserver setup went down and 
> surprisingly none of the domains hosted on these system could be 
> resolved anymore even with the master working perfectly fine.
> When I send queries directly to the master it resolves the domains 
> fine so I'm not sure why a failure of the slave leads to a total 
> failure of the service.
> Does anyone have an idea what might cause this behavior?
>
> Regards,
>   Dennis
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