DNS SERV FAIL

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Blake

I am getting the following error on a small number of lookups:

8281 DR SERVFAIL

I am unsure how to proceed.

Can anyone point me to some documentation on troubleshooting these events?

Thanks
Blake
 
This usually indicates that the nameservers responsible for the domain that
is being resolved are either mis-configured or down, but it is impossible to
say without context.
 
I have a Windows 2003 DNS server - here are the results of an nslookup
www.nai.com
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Server: dogwood.longwood.edu
Address: 159.230.4.130

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: a250.gc.akamai.net
Addresses: 65.161.97.144, 65.161.97.150
Aliases: www.nai.com, www.nai.com.edgesuite.net
ftp.nai.com
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Server: dogwood.longwood.edu
Address: 159.230.4.130

*** dogwood.longwood.edu can't find ftp.nai.com: Server failed

ftp.nai.com should be valid, as some other servers I have tried can resolve
it.

Blake
 
An external DNS I have tried returns this:
ftp.nai.com
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Server: dns1.nai.com
Address: 205.227.136.210

Name: ftp.nai.com
Served by:
- dal3dns.nai.com
205.227.136.200
ftp.nai.com
- snc3dns.nai.com
67.97.80.200
ftp.nai.com


I am unfamiliar with this kind of return...

Blake
 
Seems to work from here:

opcode: Query, status: NoError, id: 42
flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

QUESTION SECTION:
ftp.nai.com. IN A

ANSWER SECTION:
ftp.nai.com. 30 IN A 216.49.88.143

Query time: 125 ms
Server : 159.230.4.130:53 udp (159.230.4.130)
When : 11/5/2004 4:40:48 PM
Size rcvd : 45
 
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