BIND error: opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 17:45 +0530, kshitij mali wrote:
> we are unable to lookup the domain "goelexports.com"
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 63082

A trace shows the likely problem:

dns2-rz-ap:[log]$ dig +trace goelexports.com
[...]
;; Received 505 bytes from 192.58.128.30#53(j.root-servers.net) in 32 ms

goelexports.com.        172800  IN      NS      ns.hostsearchindia.com.
goelexports.com.        172800  IN      NS      ns2.hostsearchindia.com.
;; Received 116 bytes from 192.52.178.30#53(k.gtld-servers.net) in 29 ms

dig: Couldn't find server 'ns.hostsearchindia.com': node name or service
name not known

Neither of those allegedly authoritative nameservers appears to exist.

Has there been a very recent change to the nameservers for this domain?
My servers seem to have it cached and are responding with what looks
like good data:

dns2-rz-ap:[log]$ dig goelexports.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> goelexports.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1596
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;goelexports.com.               IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
goelexports.com.        14057   IN      A       69.16.253.121

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
goelexports.com.        84408   IN      NS      ns5.webcomindia.net.
goelexports.com.        84408   IN      NS      ns4.webcomindia.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns4.webcomindia.net.    12408   IN      A       69.16.253.121
ns5.webcomindia.net.    12408   IN      A       69.16.253.122

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 129.132.98.12#53(129.132.98.12)
;; WHEN: Wed Apr 27 14:58:26 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 132

Regards, K.

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