Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote:
Down is there isn't power to it until it gets repaired. So its not answering period. A "nslookup" shows "timed-out". A "dig" shows "connection timed out; no servers could be reached" (When querying ONLY against the down server).
So how do I go back to RR, who told me to take it out of my NS records, that DNS is supposed to be silently falling back and trying again?
The fact that they're rejecting on a 5xx error based on no DNS PTR is a bit harsh. While I'm all for requiring all hosts to have valid PTR records, there are times when transient or problem servers can cause a DNS lookup failure or miss, etc. If anything they should be returning a 4xx to have the remote host"try again later". -- Robert Blayzor INOC rblayzor@inoc.net http://www.inoc.net/~rblayzor/ Earth is 98% full...please delete anyone you can.