The second part is kind of a long story. We have 2 T-1 circuits comeing into our building. They are from separate providers, Winstar and Focal. We have implemented a device from Radware canlled a linkproof that will load balance incoming and outgoing traffic. The way it load balances incoming traffice is by having our authoritative DNS (Winstar) create NS records that forward any requests to the LinkProof, who in turn hands out 2 A records. One for the Winstar circuit and one for the Focal Ciruit. This the reason that the dnsstuff.com report said my DNS server is down. It's not down, it just doesn't respond the same way a DNS server would expect.
No, it is down. If it doesn't respond the way that a DNS server would expect, it won't work with DNS servers, and therefore isn't DNS. <G>
If you don't believe me -- are you aware that any time that anyone tries sending mail to @www2.aaos.org, their DNS server tries looking up the MX record for www2.aaos.org, and your DNS server does not respond? It (or a firewall) just drops the packets, essentially saying "This server is down."
This *definitely* is bad behavior. Even if it is 100% intentional, it prevents mail from getting to you, and wastes bandwidth. I'm guessing that wasn't what was intended. :)
-Scott
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