DNS Connection Question

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 trlists at clayst.com wrote:

> Back with another question ... really just networking, not Linux, hope 
> that's OK here ...
> 
> I am looking at a domain that uses servers ns1.host1.net and 
> ns2.host2.net as its authoritative nameservers.  The domain behaves 
> fine, web site can be accessed via HTTP, etc.
> 
> However I cannot open a connection to the same nameservers on port 53.  
> If I try it times out.  I've tried from several different platforms in 
> different locations on the net.

It would help if you gave us the domain names so we can play at home.

I'm guessing that it's getting a non-autoritative answer from another 
server.  Try "host -v (domainname)" to verify that's where it's getting 
the DNS entry from.



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