Yes. You are right there is A record at the apex. Dig SOA gives two different results, It tells SERVFAIL and then NXDOMAIN
[dns@lnxd0006 ~]$ dig mi-testq03.pt SOA ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.8 <<>> mi-testq03.pt SOA ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 8450 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mi-testq03.pt. IN SOA ;; Query time: 291 msec ;; SERVER: 162.130.128.167#53(162.130.128.167) ;; WHEN: Fri Aug 5 14:20:54 2016 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 31 [dns@lnxd0006 ~]$ dig mi-testq03.pt SOA ; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.8 <<>> mi-testq03.pt SOA ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 18621 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;mi-testq03.pt. IN SOA ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: pt. 294 IN SOA curiosity.dns.pt. request.dns.pt. 2016080510 21600 7200 2592000 300 ;; Query time: 19 msec ;; SERVER: 162.130.128.167#53(162.130.128.167) ;; WHEN: Fri Aug 5 14:21:00 2016 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 89 Thanks & Regards, Hari Ganesh -----Original Message----- From: bind-users [mailto:bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org] On Behalf Of S Carr Sent: Friday, August 05, 2016 10:29 PM To: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: help On 5 August 2016 at 17:21, RAM MOHAN, Hari Ganesh <hari.rammo...@atos.net> wrote: > We are not able to understand that why we are not able to resolve > mi-testq03.pt whereas mi-testq03.fr is just working fine. There is an A record at the apex of the mi-testq03.pt zone, right? What do you get if you try to dig for the SOA record? _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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