[plug] .org DNS issues

[James Devenish]

In message <20031209044711.GI877 at erdos.home>
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:47:11PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> 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.

So, you did have root servers configured, but your BIND *really* still
couldn't resolve xmlsoft.org? Hmm. Maybe the root server wouldn't honour
queries from your location (would that be allowed/typical)?

> | 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 :(

Aha! Perhaps let the iiNet guy know that?!