Problems resolving - no answer section?

Hi.  We're running BIND 8.3.4 on Solaris.

We're having problems consistently resolving www9.stpaul.com.

Quite frequently, we can't resolve it.  Here is an example:

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> +rec www9.stpaul.com a=20
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; res_nsend to server default -- 162.131.23.103: Connection timed out

In these cases, I've captured the response coming back from =
pubwood1.stpaul.com or pubchq1.stpaul.com and it will not have an answer =
section:

Domain Name System (response)
    Transaction ID: 0x952d
    Flags: 0x8080 (Standard query response, No error)
        1... .... .... .... =3D Response: Message is a response
        .000 0... .... .... =3D Opcode: Standard query (0)
        .... .0.. .... .... =3D Authoritative: Server is not an =
authority for domain
        .... ..0. .... .... =3D Truncated: Message is not truncated
        .... ...0 .... .... =3D Recursion desired: Don't do query =
recursively
        .... .... 1... .... =3D Recursion available: Server can do =
recursive queries
        .... .... ..0. .... =3D Answer authenticated: Answer/authority =
portion was not authenticated by the server
        .... .... .... 0000 =3D Reply code: No error (0)
    Questions: 1
    Answer RRs: 0
    Authority RRs: 2
    Additional RRs: 3
    Queries
        www9.stpaul.com: type A, class inet
            Name: www9.stpaul.com
            Type: Host address
            Class: inet
    Authoritative nameservers
        www9.stpaul.com: type NS, class inet, ns chqpubdd1.stpaul.com
            Name: www9.stpaul.com
            Type: Authoritative name server
            Class: inet
            Time to live: 5 seconds
            Data length: 12
            Name server: chqpubdd1.stpaul.com
        www9.stpaul.com: type NS, class inet, ns woodpubdd1.stpaul.com
            Name: www9.stpaul.com
            Type: Authoritative name server
            Class: inet
            Time to live: 5 seconds
            Data length: 13
            Name server: woodpubdd1.stpaul.com
    Additional records
        chqpubdd1.stpaul.com: type A, class inet, addr 170.202.254.250
            Name: chqpubdd1.stpaul.com
            Type: Host address
            Class: inet
            Time to live: 5 seconds
            Data length: 4
            Addr: 170.202.254.250
        woodpubdd1.stpaul.com: type A, class inet, addr 170.202.224.250
            Name: woodpubdd1.stpaul.com
            Type: Host address
            Class: inet
            Time to live: 5 seconds
            Data length: 4
            Addr: 170.202.224.250
        <Root>: type OPT, class unknown
            Name: <Root>
            Type: EDNS0 option
            UDP payload size: 4096
            Higher bits in extended RCODE: 0x0
            EDNS0 version: 0
            Must be zero: 0x0
            Data length: 0
            Data

Is this just a referral and at this point, my nameservers should be =
querying chqpubdd1.stpaul.com or woodpubdd1.stpaul.com for =
www9.stpaul.com?  They don't, though, so I'm starting to believe that =
the response could be bogus.=20

I'm also confused, because sometimes it works, and when it does, I'll =
capture a response that only has the answer section.  Although we get =
the answer, this seems to be bogus as well.

I'm trying to figure out if I have a problem, or if the stpaul.com =
nameservers have a problem, so any help or insight would be greatly =
appreciated.

Thanks!

Craig

A dozen, a gross, and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four,
Divided by seven,
Plus five times eleven,
Equals nine squared plus zero, no more.