sendmail and dig hangs on earthlink.net

[Barry Margolin]

In article <39255f0b.5972317 at news.earthlink.net>,
Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. <FrankRam at earthlink.net> wrote:
>$ dig earthlink.net any
>
>; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> earthlink.net any 
>;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>----- Hangs until <Ctrl>C ---------

Strange, it works fine for me using the same nameserver as you.  The only
apparent difference is that I'm using DiG 8.1 and you're using 8.2.

An interesting thing that I notice, though, is that RR's nameserver always
returns an authoritative answer for ANY queries -- it doesn't seem to use
its cache.  They're apparently not running BIND there.

% dig earthlink.net any @dns1.texas.rr.com

; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> earthlink.net any @dns1.texas.rr.com 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 21, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	earthlink.net, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.120.200
earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.121.201
earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.120.202
earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.121.203
earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.120.204
earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.121.205
earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.120.206
earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns1.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns2.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns3.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns4.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN SOA	ns1.earthlink.net. dns-admin.earthlink.net. (
					2000051102	; serial
					1D		; refresh
					5M		; retry
					4w2d		; expiry
					30M )		; minimum

earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx00.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx01.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx02.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx03.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx04.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx05.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx06.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx07.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx08.earthlink.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns1.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns2.earthlink.net.
earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns3.earthlink.net.

;; Total query time: 504 msec
;; FROM: tools to SERVER: dns1.texas.rr.com  24.93.35.32
;; WHEN: Fri May 19 14:09:50 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 492


-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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