In this particular case, when the issue came to me, the name servers for the domain were able to return the result with no problems, other caching servers throughout the company had no issues, but this group of servers that apparently had tests run against the domain prior to it being fully setup could not resolve it and nothing short of a full flush of the cache would fix the issue. That leads me to believe there is some data that gets held in cache not cleared by a flushname that is relevant but not documented.
It could be a nameserver in the delegation chain cached wrongly. If that nameserver isn't in the domain to which flushtree was directed, another flush aimed at that nameserver's name would be needed. I recall the "fun" of hunting down some of those. CNAMEs can also create fun. John Wobus Cornell University IT _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users