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>I have Simple DNS plus running on my W2K box.  I am having a problem
>getting the name to resolve.

what name?

>   If I try resolve the name directly to my
>primary server everything is fine, but if I try to resolve the name
>using an outside server, I get an error.  I did a whois and the look
>up returns my primary name servers IP address just fine.

whois has nothing to do with DNS.

>Any ideas what I should be looking for?

a good DNS query tool, get dig 8 from the site in my sig.

>Is there any type of tracing
>program that will trace the route the DNS look up is doing, so I can
>see where it is failing?

from the isc.org site, there is a binary pkg for BIND9, which includes dig 
9 which can do delegation tracing.

Len

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