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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Josh Close wrote:

> I'm using adns to do mx checking and I'm getting a record set,
> NXDOMAIN, or 'Nameserver reports failure'. What exactly does
> 'Nameserver reports failure' mean? What kind of failure? Does this
> mean the domain is bad?
>
> If I do 'host -t mx dads.cc' (for example) I get the same result. The
> nameserver is running bind.

I ran dig directly against the server and got no response:


$ dig @NS2.SITEPROTECT.COM dads.cc

; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> @NS2.SITEPROTECT.COM dads.cc
;; global options: printcmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


Either the server is down, or not answering queries or the name server
entries are wrong.


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That sucks, I have 49k+ domains that are being resolved like that.......oh well.

-Josh

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:10:28 -0400 (EDT), Ajai Khattri <ajai@bway.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Josh Close wrote:
>
> > So could domains like this be considered invalid?
>
> Not necessarily - it just means no DNS servers are answering queries for
> that particular domain.
>
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Josh Close wrote:

> That sucks, I have 49k+ domains that are being resolved like that.......oh well.

I traced the recursive queries all the way to the servers for that domain
so it looks OK. Can you give me some more domains to test?


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