(no subject)

[Kevin Darcy]

(Lemme see here. You send out a message with no subject line and "lust" in the sender
address, and you *really* expect people to look at the contents of the message? From
a header summary, it looks for all the world like just another piece of porno spam.
Try using a subject line next time. The only reason I looked at the message was
because, uh, I just wanted to see if the spammers have gotten any more imaginative
lately. Yeah, that's it...).

cccserver.ccczion.org is the delegated nameserver for 48.94.109.64.in-addr.arpa but
returns SERVFAIL for any query in that zone. Fix cccserver. There should be something
in its logs indicating what the problem is.

Also, your delegations for 38.164.205.in-addr.arpa look pretty goofy: did you
*really* intend for the nameservers for that zone to be called
hex.38.164.205.in-addr.arpa and brax.38.164.205.in-addr.arpa? Or did you just hack in
those A records to make things work? I would have thought you'd want the nameservers
to have "normal" names like "hex.vushta.com" and "brax.vushta.com". Defining
different names for the same nameserver for every zone that it serves strikes me as a
maintenance nightmare...


- Kevin

news at lust.goodnet.com wrote:

> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.dns.bind
> From: Thomas Knox <tom at vushta.com>
> Subject: PTR lookup failure with bind 9.1.1
> Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104060752460.7377-100000 at hex.vushta.com>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> Lines: 100
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 08:10:54 -0500
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.164.38.202
> X-Complaints-To: abuse at winstar.net
> X-Trace: news.goodnet.com 986562657 205.164.38.202 (Fri, 06 Apr 2001 06:10:57 MST)
> NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 06:10:57 MST
> Organization: WinStar GoodNet, Inc.
>
> I am running a Linux box with bind 9.1.1, which is the authoritative
> machine for the domain "ccczion.org", IP's 64.109.95.54 - 64.109.95.49. I
> have created zone configuration files for A, CNAME, MX and PTR
> records. When named starts, it does not create any warning messages in the
> /var/log/messages file.
>
> Doing a forward lookup (e.g. "www.ccczion.org") from anywhere in the 'Net
> works perfectly:
>
> tom at hex:/export/home/tom> nslookup www.ccczion.org
> Server:  hex.vushta.com
> Address:  205.164.38.202
>
> Name:    cccserver.ccczion.org
> Address:  64.109.95.52
> Aliases:  www.ccczion.org
>
> Doing a PTR (i.e. reverse) lookup from the main server works perfectly, as
> well:
>
> tom at hex:/export/home/tom> nslookup 64.109.95.52 64.109.95.52
> Server:  cccserver.ccczion.org
> Address:  64.109.95.52
>
> Name:    cccserver.ccczion.org
> Address:  64.109.95.52
>
> However, doing a PTR lookup from X random machine on the 'Net produces
> failure:
>
> tom at hex:/export/home/tom> nslookup -debug 64.109.95.52
> ;; res_nmkquery(QUERY, 202.38.164.205.in-addr.arpa, IN, PTR)
> ------------
> Got answer:
>     HEADER:
>         opcode = QUERY, id = 61451, rcode = NOERROR
>         header flags:  response, auth. answer, want recursion, recursion
> avail.
>         questions = 1,  answers = 1,  authority records = 2,  additional =
> 2
>
>     QUESTIONS:
>         202.38.164.205.in-addr.arpa, type = PTR, class = IN
>     ANSWERS:
>     ->  202.38.164.205.in-addr.arpa
>         name = hex.vushta.com
>         ttl = 86400 (1D)
>     AUTHORITY RECORDS:
>     ->  38.164.205.in-addr.arpa
>         nameserver = hex.38.164.205.in-addr.arpa
>         ttl = 86400 (1D)
>     ->  38.164.205.in-addr.arpa
>         nameserver = brax.38.164.205.in-addr.arpa
>         ttl = 86400 (1D)
>     ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
>     ->  hex.38.164.205.in-addr.arpa
>         internet address = 205.164.38.202
>         ttl = 86400 (1D)
>     ->  brax.38.164.205.in-addr.arpa
>         internet address = 205.164.38.201
>         ttl = 86400 (1D)
>
> ------------
> Server:  hex.vushta.com
> Address:  205.164.38.202
>
> ;; res_nmkquery(QUERY, 52.95.109.64.in-addr.arpa, IN, PTR)
> ------------
> Got answer:
>     HEADER:
>         opcode = QUERY, id = 61452, rcode = NXDOMAIN
>         header flags:  response, want recursion, recursion avail.
>         questions = 1,  answers = 1,  authority records = 1,  additional =
> 0
>
>     QUESTIONS:
>         52.95.109.64.in-addr.arpa, type = PTR, class = IN
>     ANSWERS:
>     ->  52.95.109.64.in-addr.arpa
>         canonical name = 52.48.95.109.64.in-addr.arpa
>         ttl = 7200 (2H)
>     AUTHORITY RECORDS:
>     ->  95.109.64.in-addr.arpa
>         ttl = 10800 (3H)
>         origin = cccserver.ccczion.org
>         mail addr = root.cccserver.ccczion.org
>         serial = 2001040506
>         refresh = 10800 (3H)
>         retry   = 3600 (1H)
>         expire  = 604800 (1W)
>         minimum ttl = 86400 (1D)
>
> ------------
> *** hex.vushta.com can't find 64.109.95.52: Non-existent host/domain
>
> Please email me if you think you can help, and I will send you a copy of
> my conf and zone files. Thanks!
>
> Tom