NS hosed! Please Advise

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NS hosed! Please Advise
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Subject:	NS hosed! Please Advise
Group:	Bind-users
From:	Odhiambo Washington
Date:	26 Oct 2006

Hello there,

Out of nowhere, my name server cannot resolve its own name:
This is a query while I am logged into the same box:

5$ nslookup ns2.wananchi.com
Server: ns2.wananchi.com
Address: 62.8.64.4

*** ns2.wananchi.com can't find ns2.wananchi.com: Non-existent host/domain

I have looked and looked and now I believe a "third eye" is perfectly in
order. I have also used some web-based tools (out of desperation) -

http://demo.dnsdoctor.org/
http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/sleuth/

They also still confirm my fears...

I am probably just missing some logging option to reveal this. I have
added

!named
*.* /var/log/named.log

to syslog.conf. However that log file does not reveal much in terms of
why there is NO A record for ns2.wananchi.com, even though I can see one
in the zone file! named-checkzone says we are fine... while we are
not:-(

[root@ns2]#named-checkzone wananchi.com /etc/namedb/views/internal/wananchi.com
zone wananchi.com/IN: loaded serial 2006102602
OK
[root@ns2]#named-checkzone wananchi.com /etc/namedb/views/external/wananchi.com
zone wananchi.com/IN: loaded serial 2006102602
OK

Now I remain simply stumped.
Any advise to identify the problem would be most helpful.

-Wash

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