My DNS appears to append?

[Andy Walden]

err, afwa.af.mil I meant. 

On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000207115115.20402C-100000 at vision.mtco.com>,
> Andy Walden  <andy at tigerteam.net> wrote:
> >Actually I realize now that nslookup adds a . to the end of any query. The
> >problem now boils down to I can't resolve the domain afaw.af.mil from a
> >specific nameserver and apparently their nameservers
> >(ns01.afaw.af.mil, ns01...) cannot resolve mine (mtco.com)?
> >Any thoughts? Thanks.
> 
> Are you sure this domain really exists?  The master server for af.mil
> doesn't know about it:
> 
> % dig afaw.af.mil ns @mars.af.mil
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> afaw.af.mil ns @mars.af.mil 
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0
> ;; QUESTIONS:
> ;;	afaw.af.mil, type = NS, class = IN
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
> af.mil.	86400	SOA	mars.af.mil. dnsman.afnoc.af.mil. (
> 			2000020302	; serial
> 			43200	; refresh (12 hours)
> 			900	; retry (15 mins)
> 			604800	; expire (7 days)
> 			86400 )	; minimum (1 day)
> 
> ;; Total query time: 125 msec
> ;; FROM: tools to SERVER: mars.af.mil  131.63.50.1
> ;; WHEN: Mon Feb  7 13:57:21 2000
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 29  rcvd: 89
> 
> 
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