On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:22:17AM +0100, Michelle Sullivan <matt...@sorbs.net> wrote a message of 185 lines which said:
> 213.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS NS-PRI.RIPE.NET. > 213.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS NS3.NIC.FR. > 213.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS SUNIC.SUNET.SE. > 213.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS SNS-PB.ISC.ORG. > 213.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS SEC1.APNIC.NET. > 213.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS SEC3.APNIC.NET. > 213.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN NS TINNIE.ARIN.NET. > ;; Received 224 bytes from 192.228.79.201#53(B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 20011 ms > > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached It is highly improbable that all these name servers are unreachable from you. Therefore, I suspect that *content* is the issue. RIPE-NCC zones are signed with DNSSEC. Are you sure you do not have a broken middlebox which deletes DNSSEC-signed answers? (I tried from an US/Datotel/Level3 machine and everything works.)
