---- On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Adam McKenna (adam-nanog@flounder.net) wrote:

On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:46:00PM -0400, John Neiberger

wrote:

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We're getting responses from the root servers, the names

just

...

aren't resolving. From a windows NT machine the error is "Non- existent Domain".

You still haven't told us what you are trying to look up and what exact error you are getting.

Until you do that, nobody is going to be able to provide you with any kind of real answer.

--Adam

This was my mistake. My desktop was sending out a request that didn't get a valid response, so it then sent a second request with out internal domain appended to the original request and *that* is what generated an actual error. So, we're not getting a specific error response, it's just that the responses are being truncated to 128 bytes even though the IP header says that they all should be longer. I think this is occurring because I'm being a dork and trying to do an nslookup on a root server and they're not designed for that. An nslookup directed at another ISP's name server seems to work just fine so the problem must lie in our own DNS server. Nothing was changed recently and that is the perplexing issues. It just appeared that it couldn't reach any of the root servers, so we--being unwashed and unschooled--went barking up the wrong tree. My apologies, and I'll get back to hounding our DNS admin. :-0 Thanks, John