Old school DNS question

[kkeville-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org (Kurt Keville)]

We have a bunch of nodes that hit a particular DNS server and while we can 
see that name service is running on that server, our queries do not resolve. 
Is there some remote way to find out if they are blocking addresses or 
something like that? We don't have access to the server so checking their 
logs is not an option.

And when the President said "Benghazi is a city about the size of Charlotte" 
... what did he think we were going to take from that? Small? Big? I know 
more people that have heard of Benghazi than have heard of Charlotte.