On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Greg Sweers <[email protected]> wrote:
> We do use forwarders on both servers.  They are both currently set to
> 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 ...

  Those are Level 3's full-service resolvers.  Unless you're a Level 3
customer, you shouldn't be tying your corporate network infrastructure
to those resolvers.  They're easy to remember and thus useful for
trouble-shooting, but using them in production is inappropriate.  It
means you're potentially traversing a potentially large part of the
Internet with UDP DNS traffic.  It also means you're depending on a
public service which could go wonky or shut you off at any time.

  Forwarders should be fast, local, and reliable.  Your local ISP's
nameservers *may* meet that criteria -- or may not.  Since you're
having DNS trouble, remove the forwarders and see what happens.
Eliminate the obvious potential problem.

  Even if you are a Level 3 customer, I'd take the forwarders out to
see if the trouble goes away.

-- Ben

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