OT: UltraDNS and dor org domains.

[Robert Woolley]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:10:49 +0100
RW <fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:43:06 -0500
> DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com> wrote:
> 
> > We just put our replacement DNS servers online, djbdns replacing
> > Bind. In testing with the few domains we have moved to the new
> > servers we began getting intermittent failures for some clients.
> > 
> > It is only dot org domains, checking deeper it ain't us. If I do a
> > domain query from dnsstuff for any org, I sometimes get nothing but
> > name server records. This happens when the root servers refer the
> > query to TLSx.Ultradns.net.
> > 
> > I see ultradns failing to return A records for slashdot.org and
> > openoffice.org as well others.
> 
> I don't see what you are getting at here, why would Ultradns return
> A-records for slashdot.org when they don't provide that domains DNS? 

but if you're asking why it doesn't provide A-records for the domain's
nameservers, then presumably it's because the nameservers themselves
are using a different TLD.