[AusNOG] Are domain name server pointers reliant on registrar name server?

[Peter Fern]

On 29/10/18 3:54 pm, Bradley Silverman wrote:
> @Peter - Hey mate, I never said our nameservers would server records, 
> I said the server itself would not go looking as it would assume that 
> as it hosts the website, and has DNS records, that it itself is 
> authoritative. This is basically how all Control Panel like systems 
> function (cPanel, Plesk etc).
> Our nameservers are not responding incorrectly, or at all in this 
> circumstance, it's just the server not making a DNS query as it 
> assumes it has that information already haha!


Can't you just point the resolvers on the box to another recursor, 
rather than at the cPanel DNS server, to fix this? Clearly I don't have 
much experience with these terrible control panel things, but this 
sounds like a pretty broken mode of operation, or perhaps there's a 
missing integration point that should be leveraged to avoid this being a 
customer problem.