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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:42:33 +0100
From:      Robert Woolley <robert.woolley@rwoolley.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.
Message-ID:  <20071023014233.4215912e@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <20071023011049.468acb00@gumby.homeunix.com.>
References:  <471CEF3A.2020702@pixelhammer.com> <20071023011049.468acb00@gumby.homeunix.com.>

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On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:10:49 +0100
RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:43:06 -0500
> DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> wrote:
> 
> > We just put our replacement DNS servers online, djbdns replacing
> > Bind. In testing with the few domains we have moved to the new
> > servers we began getting intermittent failures for some clients.
> > 
> > It is only dot org domains, checking deeper it ain't us. If I do a
> > domain query from dnsstuff for any org, I sometimes get nothing but
> > name server records. This happens when the root servers refer the
> > query to TLSx.Ultradns.net.
> > 
> > I see ultradns failing to return A records for slashdot.org and
> > openoffice.org as well others.
> 
> I don't see what you are getting at here, why would Ultradns return
> A-records for slashdot.org when they don't provide that domains DNS? 

but if you're asking why it doesn't provide A-records for the domain's
nameservers, then presumably it's because the nameservers themselves
are using a different TLD.



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