That corrupted dns thread

[Duncan Hill]

Someone posted earlier about a problem where SOA's are showing the
wrong data:

Win2k server, MS DNS
~> dig stomponline.com soa

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> stomponline.com soa 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      stomponline.com, type = SOA, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.                    5S IN SOA
1shoppingcart.com. hostmaster.com. (
                                        20010416        ; serial
                                        12H             ; refresh
                                        2H              ; retry
                                        1H              ; expiry
                                        5S )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 174 msec
;; FROM: bajan.pct.edu to SERVER: default -- 10.6.2.15
;; WHEN: Sat Apr 21 00:28:21 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 33  rcvd: 97

However, our other server reports: (NT4, MS DNS)
~> dig @10.1.2.15 stomponline.com soa                                                                                       

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @10.1.2.15 stomponline.com soa 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      stomponline.com, type = SOA, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
stomponline.com.        1D IN SOA
nic.cbi.bc.ca. root.localhost. (
                                        6               ; serial
                                        3H              ; refresh
                                        30M             ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum


;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
stomponline.com.        1D IN NS        nic.cbi.bc.ca.
stomponline.com.        1D IN NS        ns2.cbinetwork.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
nic.cbi.bc.ca.          1H IN A         209.82.27.7
ns2.cbinetwork.com.     1D IN A         209.82.27.8

;; Total query time: 260 msec
;; FROM: bajan.pct.edu to SERVER: 10.1.2.15
;; WHEN: Sat Apr 21 00:29:25 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 33  rcvd: 174


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