[SunHELP] DNS working oddly

[Lara Matthews]

Hi

I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction.  My DNS server 
is acting strangely.

It can resolve itself and the other domains that it runs but does not 
want to resolve anything outside.

bash-2.05# dig -a ns.accesscomputing.co.uk

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> -a ns.accesscomputing.co.uk
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      ns.accesscomputing.co.uk, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns.accesscomputing.co.uk.  1D IN A  213.128.229.177

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
accesscomputing.co.uk.  1D IN NS        ns.accesscomputing.co.uk.
accesscomputing.co.uk.  1D IN NS        dns.scotland.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.accesscomputing.co.uk.  1D IN A  213.128.229.177

;; Total query time: 5 msec
;; FROM: ns to SERVER: default -- 213.128.229.177
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 12 12:42:23 2005
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 42  rcvd: 118

Works fine but:

bash-2.05# dig -a www.sun.com

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> -a www.sun.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 2
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      www.sun.com, type = A, class = IN

;; Total query time: 2 msec
;; FROM: ns to SERVER: default -- 213.128.229.177
;; WHEN: Tue Jul 12 12:42:43 2005
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 29  rcvd: 29

comes back with no results and nslookup gives me this error

bash-2.05# nslookup www.sun.com
Server:  ns.accesscomputing.co.uk
Address:  213.128.229.177

*** ns.accesscomputing.co.uk can't find www.sun.com: Server failed

Any thoughts why this might be happening?

many thanks

Lara

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