Unexplainable Problem with Upgrade 8.2.3-REL to 9.1.2

Michael Kjorling michael at kjorling.com
Thu Jun 14 17:41:29 UTC 2001


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dns1.anl.gov. delegates ser.aps.anl.gov. to nsx.lbl.gov. (among
others), but at least nsx.lbl.gov. doesn't answer correctly about this
domain. (See below for dig output.)

Have the admin check his logs to ensure that the zone actually loads
properly.


Michael Kjörling


On Jun 14 2001 10:46 -0500, Barry Finkel wrote:

> We saw a strange problem with BIND.  We have had no problems
> resolving names in the domain
>
>      ser.aps.anl.gov
>
> until last night.  This morning I called the hostmaster of the
>
>      aps.anl.gov
>
> domain, and he told me that the
>
>      ser.aps.anl.gov
>
> domain has always been in its own zone file.  The only change made
> yesterday at that DNS server was to upgrade from 8.2.3-REL to 9.1.2;
> the claim is that there were no zone data files updated.  I cannot
> see how the BIND upgrade could have caused this problem.  Does anyone
> (who is more familiar with BIND 8 than I) have any comments?
>
> I solved the problem by adding
>
>      ser.aps.anl.gov
>
> as a new zone on my BIND 8.2.3-REL slaves.

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[michael at varg michael]$ dig aps.anl.gov ns +norec

; <<>> DiG 9.1.2 <<>> aps.anl.gov ns +norec
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51737
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;aps.anl.gov.			IN	NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
aps.anl.gov.		86209	IN	NS	nsx.lbl.gov.
aps.anl.gov.		86209	IN	NS	dns1.anl.gov.
aps.anl.gov.		86209	IN	NS	dns2.anl.gov.
aps.anl.gov.		86209	IN	NS	oxygen.aps.anl.gov.
aps.anl.gov.		86209	IN	NS	ns2.es.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns2.es.net.		161418	IN	A	134.55.6.130
nsx.lbl.gov.		43076	IN	A	131.243.64.3
oxygen.aps.anl.gov.	86209	IN	A	164.54.52.4

;; Query time: 93 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(0.0.0.0)
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 14 19:40:38 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 182

[michael at varg michael]$ dig ser.aps.anl.gov @dns1.anl.gov ns +norec

; <<>> DiG 9.1.2 <<>> ser.aps.anl.gov @dns1.anl.gov ns +norec
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 34681
;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 8

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ser.aps.anl.gov.		IN	NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ser.aps.anl.gov.	86400	IN	NS	nsx.lbl.gov.
ser.aps.anl.gov.	86400	IN	NS	dns1.anl.gov.
ser.aps.anl.gov.	86400	IN	NS	dns2.anl.gov.
ser.aps.anl.gov.	86400	IN	NS	oxygen.aps.anl.gov.
ser.aps.anl.gov.	86400	IN	NS	ns2.es.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
nsx.lbl.gov.		15985	IN	A	131.243.64.3
dns1.anl.gov.		86400	IN	A	130.202.20.5
dns1.anl.gov.		86400	IN	A	146.139.254.5
dns1.anl.gov.		86400	IN	A	146.137.64.5
dns2.anl.gov.		86400	IN	A	130.202.20.3
dns2.anl.gov.		86400	IN	A	146.139.254.3
oxygen.aps.anl.gov.	86400	IN	A	164.54.52.4
ns2.es.net.		42643	IN	A	134.55.6.130

;; Query time: 294 msec
;; SERVER: 146.137.64.5#53(dns1.anl.gov)
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 14 19:40:46 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 266

[michael at varg michael]$ dig ser.aps.anl.gov @nsx.lbl.gov. ns +norec

; <<>> DiG 9.1.2 <<>> ser.aps.anl.gov @nsx.lbl.gov. ns +norec
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 33094
;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ser.aps.anl.gov.		IN	NS

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
aps.anl.gov.		86400	IN	SOA	oxygen.aps.anl.gov.
root.oxygen.aps.anl.gov. 3106233 1800 600 1209600 86400

;; Query time: 254 msec
;; SERVER: 131.243.64.3#53(nsx.lbl.gov.)
;; WHEN: Thu Jun 14 19:40:51 2001
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 81

[michael at varg michael]$

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