My domain name name not propagating through the Internet.

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 11:44:58AM -0500,
 Thomas Strike <thomas.strike at gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 269 lines which said:

> they say that the problem is with my server.

They were right.

> I am here asking for fresh sets of eyes to look at my setup file and the
> domain zone record that is at issue. My domain is sleepyvalley.net and my
> primary dns server is ns1.sleepyvalley.net.

This server does not reply over UDP, only TCP. 

% dig @144.217.11.151 NS sleepyvalley.net
; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Debian <<>> @144.217.11.151 NS sleepyvalley.net
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


% dig +tcp @144.217.11.151 NS sleepyvalley.net


; <<>> DiG 9.10.3-P4-Debian <<>> +tcp @144.217.11.151 NS sleepyvalley.net
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49349
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sleepyvalley.net.	IN NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
sleepyvalley.net.	38400 IN NS sdns1.ovh.ca.
sleepyvalley.net.	38400 IN NS ns1.sleepyvalley.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.sleepyvalley.net.	38400 IN A 144.217.11.151

;; Query time: 93 msec
;; SERVER: 144.217.11.151#53(144.217.11.151)
;; WHEN: Sat May 26 19:26:36 CEST 2018
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 105