On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, geneb wrote:
a reboot
of the DNS server in this case.
Actually, in this case, it was even easier to fix. My server for some
reason had been physically turned off!
Kinda hard to resolve the DNS when the machine is powered off...
It could have been as simple as some accidentally doing a "shutdown
-h" instead of a "shutdown -r"....
I've done that a few times to my home server when I was somewhere many
miles away from it.
An old UNIX admins' joke...or an interview question:
Q. "What's the difference between 'kill -1 1' and 'kill 1
1'?"
A. "A trip to the office at 2AM."