Just a followup here - I found that relays.osirusoft.com is dead to me. I may be late here that they have closed down, or the spammer DDOS attack against SPEWS is still ongoing. I disabled them and the logjam cleared up pronto.
A theory about the other DNS server solving the problem - the admin of the other DNS server may have already made them authoritative for relays.osirusoft.com since they were unresponsive. > > What is the log entry if a DNS doesn't respond at all for a query? I > >can't see any obvious DNS failures recorded. > > Most likely, the packets to the main DNS server are getting dropped > occasionally -- that would cause a test to time out. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.