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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: ref.tfs.com frequently unrecognized by DNS
Message-ID: <1992Nov23.212117.11709@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
Organization: Weber State University  (Ogden, UT)
References: <ellis.722460485@nova>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 21:21:17 GMT
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In article <ellis.722460485@nova> ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes:
>All day today, but frequently in the past as well, DNS, including nslookup,
>has been unable to find ref, either by name or IP address.  Is this
>scheduled or unscheduled ( :) ) downtime?
>
>What causes ref to disappear from the route maps?  How long does it have to
>be down before it is taken out?  How long does it take for it to propagate
>when it comes back up?

I had this problem too.. what I did was set my name server upstream until
it showed up.  The problem is that one of my servers upstream (cc.weber.edu)
is incorrectly configured to not pass on non-authoritative answers.  This
could be your problem, especially if you have a Multinet host upstream.

This may be correctable via workaround from Julian's end by uping the time
to live for his address responses.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
					terry_lambert@novell.com
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