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[Brad Knowles]

At 8:42 PM +0200 9/14/01, RJHM van den Bergh wrote:

>  I did some dig query to look up a problem and got a reply that looks a
>  little strange to me.
>  It made me curious so here is the query
>
>  [root at jads /root]# dig www.chaletboisrond.tc.ca

	You didn't specify what type of query this is, so by default I 
believe that dig will fill in with an "ANY".

>
>  ; <<>> DiG 9.1.0 <<>> www.chaletboisrond.tc.ca
>  ;; global options:  printcmd
>  ;; Got answer:
>  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 19065
>  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
>  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>  ;www.chaletboisrond.tc.ca.      IN      A
>
>  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>  tc.ca.                  7367    IN      SOA     ns.freenet.victoria.bc.ca.
>  dns.freenet.victoria.bc.ca. 2001013003 20000 10000 604800 86400
>
>  ;; Query time: 7 msec
>  ;; SERVER: 10.255.255.254#53(10.255.255.254)
>  ;; WHEN: Fri Sep 14 20:40:55 2001
>  ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 105
>
>  I see no slave dns server which seems wierd to me.

	This is just the information which the local nameserver had 
cached about this zone, and therefore it is what got stuffed in the 
response.  If you had specifically made a query of type NS, then the 
server would have had to go look up to see what the nameservers are, 
and would then have returned this information to you.

	This is perfectly normal behaviour.

>  Also the authorative section replies with two dns server.

	Nope.  It's one nameserver (the first label) and one e-mail 
address (the second label) whereby the first dot is turned into an 
"@" symbol if you need to send any mail.

	So, this SOA record is claiming that "ns.freenet.victoria.bc.ca." 
is the official master server for this zone, and that if you have any 
questions about this zone, they can be sent to 
"dns at freenet.victoria.bc.ca".

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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