Or am I just misinterpreting this dig output?

[Steve Hotz]

Hi,

>> Is e.root-servers.net lame for com?
>> Or am I just misinterpreting this dig output?

In case you weren't asking a rhetorical question ... :-)
I get the same reading as you -- and a query for ibm.com
only returns authority records for .com.  Strange.

steve


$ dig @e.root-servers.net. soa com. +norec

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @e.root-servers.net. soa com. +norec 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32309
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 12, ADDITIONAL: 12
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      com, type = SOA, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.                    6D IN NS        A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    6D IN NS        K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    198.41.0.4
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    128.63.2.53
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.33.4.12
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.112.36.4
F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.     6D IN A         198.17.208.67
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.5.5.241
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    128.9.0.107
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.36.148.17
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    192.203.230.10
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.     5w6d16h IN A    128.8.10.90
J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.     6D IN A         198.41.0.21
K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.     6D IN A         195.8.99.11

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