-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: MD5 Hello Randy, Monday, February 24, 2003, 12:03:30 AM, you wrote: RB> could someone else please check the dns for www.united.com? the servers RB> for united.com seem to delegate www.united.com, but the delegatee seems RB> not to return an soa. i get very confusing results. This is just a guess, but it appears that the two servers authoritative for www.united.com are load balancers: dc1lbs1.uls-prod.com dc2lbs1.uls-prod.com And it looks like you are correct: vbind.com /home/allan#dig @dc1lbs1.uls-prod.com www.united.com SOA ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> @dc1lbs1.uls-prod.com www.united.com SOA ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 168 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.united.com. IN SOA ;; Query time: 37 msec ;; SERVER: 64.95.89.4#53(dc1lbs1.uls-prod.com) ;; WHEN: Mon Feb 24 00:52:08 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 32 But that may be intentional... allan - -- Allan Liska allan@allan.org http://www.allan.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAwUAPlmyBSkg6TAvIBeFAQHHLQP/X91jZgjX9ghH0MaVRCbrPDb3Jl55+8u3 CE9cOHnqQBOv+XtuHdX/m2+Sqc2zIlf3puowgEafnncs4D8MlpiJhB1wh1pxB3xn yKy+0t3pgX/+1scimqbcS4t8zBh1C3mV2Y0Z1YnbSNmxflvU61sCrJHR8VxfvPLh 9o/7dzATUT0= =yasW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----