On 17 Feb 2005, at 10:44, Niall O Broin wrote:
> to allow the server do DNS queries to the world to update its cache.
> However, it is doing slow very slowly, so I'm getting a lot of "The
> internet is broken" from the secretary. Nearly always, on the DNS
> server itself, if I do dig somehost.somedomain.sometld I will get
> this error:
>> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>> but trying again will get an answer. Sometimes, however, it is
> necessary to try several times.
PEBKAC, basically - the internal server was configured to use a
forwarder which it couldn't reach.
Niall
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