Re: Win2K DNS cannot query BIND 9

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.. <noemails@please> wrote:
> I'm running my authoritative non-recursive DNS on BIND 9 with a
> secondary on DJBDNS. One of our customers, who uses Windows 2000 for
> their DNS, cannot query any of our domains. I can see the queries
> coming into the firewall and I can see the queries logged in the BIND
> server's messages log, but they say they just get a timeout.
>
> If I use nslookup to their server, I also get a timeout when I query
> any of my zones. They used to work just fine and then "all of a
> sudden" it stopped working in early November. They found some problem
> in their configuration and it started working again. It worked for
> two weeks and then stopped working a month ago. Of course, we're both
> claiming nothing has changed on either side. <sigh>
>
> Oddly, when they try to query my secondary, which belongs to my ISP,
> they also get a timeout.
> www.dnsreport.com & www.dnsstuff.com all show my DNS servers as fine.
>
> If anyone has any guesses, I'd sure appreciate hearing them.

So are you saying the Windows DNS cannot get an answer to a referral to your
DNS?
Or are you saying when queried directly?
It may be understandable if your DNS is being queried directly since you
have recursion disabled, but I would have to see the 'nslookup -d2' results.



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