BIND not resolving some addresses

[Ed Greshko]

Eric Wood wrote:

> Has anyone seen a fix for this?  Even though my dns server can resolve 
> eweek.com, It can't resolve "e.staples-deals.com".
> 
> Ever since I ran bind on redhat 7.3, it has never resolved that domain 
> name for me:
> 
> # dig e.staples-deals.com @mydnsserver
> results in a status: SERVFAIL
> 
> # dig e.staples-deals.com @myrouter
> results are good!!
> 
> These are indeed weird results.  I'm currently running FC6 and I have 
> the same exact problem as when I had it with RH 7.3.
> 
> Any ideas on how to track this down?

I would run named in debug mode on @mydnsserver and check the logs.  At 
least as a start.