[dns-operations] .ORG website experiences intermittent DNS failure

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 03:25:51PM -0400,
 Catherine Burdon <catherine at cabur.com> wrote 
 a message of 122 lines which said:

> Website www.newmarketstageco.org experiencing DNS failure
> intermittently.  

For me, it is not intermittent, it is solidly broken.

% check-soa newmarketstageco.org 
ns1.securehost.com.
	24.244.141.3: ERROR: 0 answer
ns2.securehost.com.
	24.244.141.4: ERROR: 0 answer

% dig @ns1.securehost.com A newmarketstageco.org 

; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> @ns1.securehost.com A newmarketstageco.org
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 56602
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;newmarketstageco.org.	IN A

;; Query time: 147 msec
;; SERVER: 24.244.141.3#53(24.244.141.3)
;; WHEN: Mon Sep 30 21:37:30 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 49

> have verified the DNS zone settings for the domain and all are
> correct.

I do not think so.