Hi. When I query my dns servers internally and directly from outside I get
[macgre@topnz15209-linux ~]$ dig @202.a.x.y mydomain.nz ; <<>> DiG 9.7.2-P3-RedHat-9.7.2-1.P3.fc13 <<>> @202.a.x.y mydomain.nz ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2997 ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mydomain.nz. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: mydomain.nz. 86400 IN A 202.a.t.z ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: mydomain.nz. 86400 IN NS mcvpdns01.mydomain.nz. mydomain.nz. 86400 IN NS drvpdns01.mydomain.nz. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: drvpdns01.mydomain.nz. 86400 IN A 202.a.x.z mcvpdns01.mydomain.nz. 86400 IN A 202.a.x.y ;; Query time: 2 msec ;; SERVER: 202.a.x.y#53(202.a.x.y) ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 24 11:39:26 2011 When I query against opendns and google's public servers I get [macgre@topnz15209-linux ~]$ dig @8.8.8.8 mydomain.nz ; <<>> DiG 9.7.2-P3-RedHat-9.7.2-1.P3.fc13 <<>> @8.8.8.8 mydomain.nz ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45766 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mydomain.nz. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: mydomain.nz. 61371 IN A 202.a.t.z ;; Query time: 170 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 24 11:41:32 2011 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 55 why are ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: mydomain.nz. 86400 IN NS mcvpdns01.mydomain.nz. mydomain.nz. 86400 IN NS drvpdns01.mydomain.nz. missing ? We a have users complaining that they cant resolve out dns servers, and thus can't do lookups for services. Our version of bind is 9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3 Thanks G _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users