[Gllug] Any bind experts?

[Benjamin Donnachie]

I'm using BIND 9.3.2 as a caching name server under cAos-2 and keep
having trouble resolving the domain lists.nuclearelephant.com:

dig lists.nuclearelephant.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> lists.nuclearelephant.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 32917
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;lists.nuclearelephant.com.     IN      A

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.61.2#53(192.168.61.2)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov  2 12:50:13 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 43


However, if I use my ISP's DNS I get:

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> lists.nuclearelephant.com @194.168.4.100
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14518
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;lists.nuclearelephant.com.     IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
lists.nuclearelephant.com. 1200 IN      A       82.165.184.162

;; Query time: 269 msec
;; SERVER: 194.168.4.100#53(194.168.4.100)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov  2 12:51:31 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 59


Any ideas what might be causing my local DNS to misbehave?  Other
lookups work fine...  I'm currently fiddling around with various debug
options but haven't been able to get anything useful out of it yet.

In named.conf:

[...]
zone  "." {
        type hint;
        file  "named.ca";
};
[...]

named.ca contains:


; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> @e.root-servers.net . ns
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48256
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 13

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.                              IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
.                       518400  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       518400  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       198.41.0.4
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.228.79.201
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.33.4.12
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       128.8.10.90
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.203.230.10
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.5.5.241
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.112.36.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       128.63.2.53
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.36.148.17
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       192.58.128.30
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       193.0.14.129
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       198.32.64.12
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     3600000 IN      A       202.12.27.33

;; Query time: 158 msec
;; SERVER: 192.203.230.10#53(192.203.230.10)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov  2 12:56:45 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 436

Help!

Ben
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