DNS 8.22P5 and WinNT

Len Conrad lconrad at Go2France.com
Thu Jul 27 07:30:21 UTC 2000


If you want to test your BIND8/NT for the multiple-A-record bug, do this:

dig @bind8NT at mybox.com absolutebeauty.web1000.com a

this returns:

# dig absolutebeauty.web1000.com a

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> absolutebeauty.web1000.com a
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 23, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      absolutebeauty.web1000.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.235
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.207
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.208
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.203
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.204
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.205
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.206
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.224
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.225
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.234
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.247
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.249
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.243
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.242
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.231
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.251
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.233
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.176
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.177
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.178
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.229
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.232
absolutebeauty.web1000.com.  3H IN A  64.41.227.220

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
WEB1000.com.            9h8m47s IN NS   NS02.SBUSINESS.NET.
WEB1000.com.            9h8m47s IN NS   NS04.SBUSINESS.NET.
WEB1000.com.            9h8m47s IN NS   NS01.SBUSINESS.NET.
WEB1000.com.            9h8m47s IN NS   NS03.SBUSINESS.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS02.SBUSINESS.NET.     9h8m48s IN A    64.41.227.132
NS04.SBUSINESS.NET.     9h8m48s IN A    64.41.227.134
NS01.SBUSINESS.NET.     9h8m48s IN A    64.41.227.131
NS03.SBUSINESS.NET.     9h8m48s IN A    64.41.227.133

;; Total query time: 584 msec
;; FROM: ls1.meiway.com to SERVER: default -- 212.73.210.69
;; WHEN: Thu Jul 27 10:52:58 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 44  rcvd: 576

I had this query kill my ms1.meiway.com BIND8/NT DNS. What's Up Gold 
started complaining and my BKA.bat file, scheduled with NT AT schedule 
service, restarted BIND, and BLATted me a report.  That's liveable.

Len

http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5  installable binary for NT4
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