Failed lookups problem

Re: Failed lookups problem

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on 10/26/04 6:12 PM, Scott Haneda at lists@newgeo.com wrote:

> This just started happening today, not sure what in the world is going on.
>
> I do a google seach and get results for domains I have never hit before,
> certain ones fail to load, Safari reports a failure to me. If I load the
> url again, it then works just fine.
>
> I turned on queryy logging on my DNS server, which is at a remote location,
> and I can see my initial query come in. So it sounds to me like I am indeed
> asking my DNS server for a record, but somehow it may not be making it back
> to me.
>
> I changed on my computer the DNS server that is used for lookups to my
> colo-isp's and all of a sudden all urls load just fine. This leads me to
> think it is not a issue with my local computer, but it is a issue with my
> DNS server.
>
> Any ideas how to deal with this, I did restart the DNS server and that did
> not have any effect on this problem.

Here is what is happening from dig, as you can see, first lookup bad, second
and thrid sometimes bad, then it all of a sudden works:

dig quickaid.com @ns1.hostwizard.com +norecurse

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> quickaid.com @ns1.hostwizard.com +norecurse
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51001
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;quickaid.com. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com. 170853 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com. 170853 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.

;; Query time: 63 msec
;; SERVER: 64.84.37.14#53(ns1.hostwizard.com)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 26 18:28:04 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 254

Scott-Hanedas-Computer:~ haneda$ dig quickaid.com @ns1.hostwizard.com
+norecurse

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> quickaid.com @ns1.hostwizard.com +norecurse
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40924
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;quickaid.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
quickaid.com. 1793 IN A 64.70.157.224

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
quickaid.com. 1793 IN NS ns2.valueweb.net.
quickaid.com. 1793 IN NS ns.valueweb.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.valueweb.net. 172793 IN A 216.219.253.211
ns2.valueweb.net. 172793 IN A 216.219.254.10

;; Query time: 60 msec
;; SERVER: 64.84.37.14#53(ns1.hostwizard.com)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 26 18:28:25 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 125

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