resolving issue

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, ronnie gauthier wrote:
> I'm trying to help a friend out on his web hoster.
>
> A domain is pointed from a registar to a hosting agents DNS servers, the DNS
> servers are correct, I checked.
> The host claims to have the proper entries in their DNS server.
>
> If I set the nslookup server to the hosts main DNS server then query the domain
> name in question, I should get returned the IP from the hosters DNS, no matter
> if the registar DNS has fully propagated or not. In other words, if the hoster
> has DNS records correct I should never receive the following from nslookup
>
> > www.surprisewinner.com
> Server:         ns1.skylap.com
> Address:        207.44.216.141#53
>
> ** server can't find www.surprisewinner.com: SERVFAIL

No, that error means that ns1.skylap.com isn't serving DNS information.
Either its not a DNS server, or its broken.  www.surprisewinner.com also
doesn't appear to be a valid domain, however.

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