OT: DNS problems (was Re: CFT: emulators/petitecloud)

[Aryeh Friedman]

Anyone have any idea why whois and dig would get dns right but resolv/host
do not:

>From whois on petitecloud.org:


Name Server:NS1.FNWE.NET
Name Server:NS2.FNWE.NET

   Server Name: NS1.FNWE.NET
   IP Address: 162.217.113.50
   Registrar: DOMAIN.COM, LLC
   Whois Server: whois.domain.com
   Referral URL: http://www.domain.com

Dig:

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P4 <<>> petitecloud.org +trace
;; global options: +cmd
.            3600000    IN    NS    K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.            3600000    IN    NS    A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 228 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) in 4604 ms

org.            172800    IN    NS    d0.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.            172800    IN    NS    c0.org.afilias-nst.info.
org.            172800    IN    NS    a2.org.afilias-nst.info.
org.            172800    IN    NS    b2.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.            172800    IN    NS    b0.org.afilias-nst.org.
org.            172800    IN    NS    a0.org.afilias-nst.info.
;; Received 435 bytes from 202.12.27.33#53(202.12.27.33) in 3474 ms

petitecloud.org.    86400    IN    NS    ns1.fnwe.net.
petitecloud.org.    86400    IN    NS    ns2.fnwe.net.
;; Received 77 bytes from 199.249.120.1#53(199.249.120.1) in 978 ms

petitecloud.org.    10800    IN    A    162.217.113.50
petitecloud.org.    10800    IN    NS    cloud.petitecloud.org.
;; Received 85 bytes from 162.217.113.50#53(162.217.113.50) in 119 ms

Host:

Host petitecloud.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)