Re: Problem resolving www.futureshop.ca

On 29 May 2005, Ronan Flood wrote:

> Lawrence Houston <bind@greenfield.dyndns.org> wrote:
>
> > Although neither dns1 or dns2 generate a response via TCP, the error
> > generated (and time delay) are different. Curiously the delay for the TCP
> > Request to DNS1 is quite short, while the TCP Request to DNS2 takes longer
> > (similar to the delays for UDP Requests to both Nameservers):
> >
> > DNS1
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > dig @216.123.224.131 www.futureshop.ca. +norec +vc
> > ;; communications error to 216.123.224.131#53: end of file
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> That's interesting: looks like dns1 closed the TCP connection
> without returning a response. Is it possible they've got your
> IP address on their blackhole list?

One reason I posted to the BIND News Group was to learn whether Black
LISTs exists for Nameservers the way they do for SMTP Servers???

Lawrence Houston -- (bind@greenfield.dyndns.org)