Just to confirm what Vinny reported, BIND will stop answering queries on one
bound IP but keep going on others. The below DIG output is from the same
system, substituting the fully qualified server name for localhost.
I've also attached a screenshot of the process threads in case that's useful
to somebody (although it didn't seem to change much after restart of the
service).
Darren
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dns\bin>dig @ns1.wizzydesign.net sheffnet.co.uk +notcp
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2-W1 <<>> @ns1.wizzydesign.net sheffnet.co.uk +notcp
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2-W1 <<>> @localhost sheffnet.co.uk +notcp
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1519
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sheffnet.co.uk. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
sheffnet.co.uk. 3600 IN A 195.10.240.196
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
sheffnet.co.uk. 3600 IN NS ns1.wildcard.net.uk.
sheffnet.co.uk. 3600 IN NS ns1.wizzydesign.net.
sheffnet.co.uk. 3600 IN NS ns2.wizzydesign.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.wizzydesign.net. 3600 IN A 77.95.32.227
ns2.wizzydesign.net. 3600 IN A 82.138.234.220
ns1.wildcard.net.uk. 17416 IN A 82.138.232.200
;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 09 11:24:01 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 178
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