On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Peter Ajamian wrote: >George Greer wrote: >> >> The problem isn't the availability of a secondary server. The actual DNS >> file has: >> >> NS cambot.circlemud.org. >> NS dns.m-l.org. >> >Should've been able to get at least that when I did a ls -d in nslookup, >that timed out as well. Except network connectivity to the machine was dead so you can't access it. 10:34am up 110 days, 14:26, 5 users, load average: 0.06, 0.02, 0.00 >$dig @A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. circlemud.net. ns [...] >;; ANSWER SECTION: >circlemud.net. 2D IN NS CAMBOT.CIRCLEMUD.ORG. > >;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: >CAMBOT.CIRCLEMUD.ORG. 2D IN A 128.9.160.111 If you query Cambot itself, you'll get the proper response. It appears nameservers will query Cambot for nameservers after the original (root|gtld)-server query times out. I _do_ get requests for circlemud.net at dns.m-l.org. In fact, this gtld-server has the right entry: dig @l.gtld-servers.net. circlemud.net. ns Odd. -- George Greer greerga@circlemud.org -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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