unknown hosts appear to resolve

[Mark Steph]

while truely speculation, that is apparently exactly what is happening. 
Doh!  (and thanks).


Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> 
> > I am positive I have something stupid and obvious wrong, but I can't seem
> > to find the answer anywhere else, so here goes.  (Probably searching with
> > the wrong keywords...)
> >
> > I have 2 DNS servers for 2 separate domains.  They are (supposedly) built
> > exactly alike.  (Obviously, this is not *really* the case).  Sunos 5.6,
> > same hardware, same patches, bind 8.2.1.
> >
> > server1:
> > > nslookup noexist.com
> > Server:  server1.domain1.com
> > Address:  1.2.3.4
> >
> > Name:    noexist.com.domain1.com
> >
> > (It should return some NXDOMAIN error here...)
> 
> It would be instructive to do an 'nslookup -type=any noexist.com'.
> 
> Is it possible, e.g., that you have a wildcard MX record for
> domain1.com that is being picked up?
> 
> This is purely speculation ...
> 
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