[sf-lug] sf-lug.com master/primary DNS appears broken (SERVFAIL)

[Rick Moen]

Throughout today, logcheck has been nagging me about failures of
AXFR/IXFR requests from my secondary DNS for sf-lug.com to the domain
primary nameserver, 


----- Forwarded message from logcheck system account <logcheck at linuxmafia.com> -----

Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2017 18:02:02 -0700
From: logcheck system account <logcheck at linuxmafia.com>
To: root at linuxmafia.com
Subject: linuxmafia.com 2017-07-24 18:02 System Events

System Events
=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Jul 24 17:53:23 linuxmafia named[16805]: zone sf-lug.com/IN: refresh: unexpected rcode (SERVFAIL) from master 198.144.194.238#53 (source 0.0.0.0#0)


----- End forwarded message -----


Checking by direct examination:

$ dig -t soa ns1.sf-lug.com @NS1.SF-LUG.COM +short
$ dig -t soa ns1.sf-lug.com @NS1.SF-LUG.COM

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> -t soa ns1.sf-lug.com @NS1.SF-LUG.COM
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 34122
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns1.sf-lug.com.                        IN      SOA

;; Query time: 339 msec
;; SERVER: 198.144.194.238#53(198.144.194.238)
;; WHEN: Mon Jul 24 18:45:48 2017
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 32

$


I conclude primary DNS service is currently broken at master (/primary) 
nameserver NS1.SF-LUG.COM, IP 198.144.194.238.  Please be advised.