[plug] .org DNS issues

[Cameron Patrick]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:41:22PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
| In message <20031209043621.GH877 at erdos.home>
| on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:36:21PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
| > I'm no DNS expert, but surely the fact that I couldn't resolve it even
| > when my bind was set up with no forwarders
| 
| No forwarders? How exactly was BIND supposed to resolve any non-local
| names?

Contacting the root servers or whatever.  Dunno, I'm hazy on the
specifics of DNS - I just used the default configuration without bothering
to put in a forwarders {} section in the config file.

| > (i.e. Iinet's DNS servers weren't involved) would suggest that it's
| > not as simple as this?
| 
| Just as a point of interest, tld1.ultradns.net answers queries for me,
| so it doesn't seem as though (say) the entire domain is disappearing.

It consistently times out for me :(

Cameron.