Server Fail errors
Barry Margolin
barry.margolin at level3.com
Wed Oct 1 18:08:57 UTC 2003
In article <blf0re$17a6$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Brett Simpson <simpsonb at hillsboroughcounty.org> wrote:
>On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:58 am, Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:
>> Yes. The zone is broken. The nameservers it is delegated to
>> don't have address (or any other) records in the that contains
>> them.
>
>Are their any side affects to this? For example could a Server Fail message
>cause our Border Manager (a Novell product) to treat our DNS servers as
>failed.
No, it shouldn't. It's an error specific to the particular name being
looked up, not a problem with the server in general. They're quite common
due to all the misconfigured nameservers out there, and there's nothing you
can do on your server to prevent it.
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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
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