BIND not resolving some addresses

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 20:27 -0500, aragonx at dcsnow.com 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?
> 
> This is an old thread but I'm using my powers as a necromancer to
> resurrect it!
> 
> In any case, I have had this exact problem since way back in the Fedora
> Core 2 era.
> 
> At first I thought it was my ISP.  I had RR and switched to DSL.  I had
> the same problem with both on the same domain (tldp.org).  I added a free
> DNS server to my resolv.conf.  This did not help.  It must be something
> local.
> 
> Any ideas?

Have you tried "dig +trace e.staples-deals.com @mydnsserver" to see
exactly what's going on?  My guess is that you're not getting to the
root servers.

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