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> I have mail.xyz.com, www.xyz.com, host.xyz.com as A records in my zone
> files.
> Very sporadically I get a call from someone saying that they cannot get to
> www.xyz.com.  I have them ping around and they can ping mail and host, but
> www comes back with unknown host.  If I have them do an nslookup and change
> to another DNS server out on the net, it works.  A short while later the
> problem will resolve itself.
...
> Any clues?

Tell us the real name of the xyz.com domain so that we can check your
name server for ourselves. *Then* we might be able to help.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no


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