from the BIND 9.2 ARM:
Yes, I have read the documentation.
how were you testing this? did you try any of the other root servers? If any of the root server were inaccessible it would have caused a whole lot more noise on teh intarwebs.
It was an intermittent problem. ie: there was some packet loss probably restricted to DNS traffic.
Is this DNS server of your publicly accessible? If so, does it allow recursion from anywhere/anyone?
Nope.
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Jean-Francois Pirus