[fjk].gtld-servers.net bogus for .com

Wed Nov 11 18:20:18 UTC 1998

[fjk].gtld-servers.net (which are listed as authoritative for .com) are
giving bogus authoritative nxdomain results for all the .com domains I
tried.  eg.

; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> internic.com @f.gtld-servers.net 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS:
;;      internic.com, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
COM.    86400   SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. hostmaster.INTERNIC.NET. (
                        1998111000      ; serial
                        1800    ; refresh (30 mins)
                        900     ; retry (15 mins)
                        604800  ; expire (7 days)
                        86400 ) ; minimum (1 day)

;; Total query time: 67 msec
;; FROM: valis.worldgate.com to SERVER: f.gtld-servers.net  207.159.77.18
;; WHEN: Wed Nov 11 11:17:16 1998
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 30  rcvd: 107

f.root-servers.net is giving non-authoritative "sorry, I don't do that,
here are the nameservers for .com" responses.

I have sent mail to the InterNIC, but just in case you were wondering why
you are seeing what you may be seeing.  Symptoms of this problem are being
told by your resolver that various domains do not exist once in a while.