[KLUG Members] unable to get dns lookup on a couple sites

[Mike Williams]

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>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 07:00:43 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Rusty Yonkers <therustycook@yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] unable to get dns lookup on a couple sites
>To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
>Reply-To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
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>The problem is not with my dns server responding with what it has in
>it but that when my server gets a request outside the zone it cannot
>find the other domain.  My domain is olympia-gr.com and I am trying
>to get to knowledgenet.com.  That is what is not working.  For some
>reason when my DNS server is checking the root servers it is not
>finding out about knowledgenet.com.  Other servers (outside my
>network) are not having any problem getting there however.  
>

Maybe the hint file that specifies root servers is out of date.  My BIND 
installation uses my ISP's DNS servers as forwarders, so I'm not 
familiar with updating the hint file, but I remember reading in the docs 
that the file needed updating occasionally.  Sorry, can't telll you 
anything useful about how to do it.