dig +trace problems

James Griffin agriffin at cpcug.org
Mon Jul 15 21:41:55 UTC 2002


Simon Waters wrote:
> 
> Will Yardley wrote:
> >
> > Why does dig +trace fail on this:
> > jazz% dig +trace ilove.lancaster.pa.us.
> 
> > dig: couldn't get address for 'B.GTLD.BIZ': not found
> >
> > I can still get a response from C.GTLD.BIZ. - why does it fail on not
> > being able to find the address for b.gtld.biz? shouldn't it ask
> > c.gtld.biz and continue?
> 
> The main problem appears to stem from b.gtld.biz not existing
> any more, but named will answer with glue data from "." some
> times.
> 
> I can get BIND 9.2.1 to answer for b.gtld.biz from glue, and
> then if I query "dig gtld.biz ns" it caches the non-existence of
> "b". Your problem dig query still works with dig from 9.2.1,
> whichever way I do it.
> 
[snip]

This is odd.  Here are the results from 'doc':

Doc-2.2.3: doc -v -p lancaster.pa.us.
Doc-2.2.3: Starting test of lancaster.pa.us.   parent is pa.us.
Doc-2.2.3: Test date - Mon Jul 15 15:52:08 EDT 2002
Note: Skipping parent domain testing
Found 2 NS and 0 glue records for lancaster.pa.us. @a.gtld.biz.
(non-AUTH)
Using NSlist from parent domain server a.gtld.biz.
NS list summary for lancaster.pa.us. from parent (pa.us.) servers
  == ns1.ptd.net. ns2.ptd.net.
soa @ns1.ptd.net. for lancaster.pa.us. serial: 2002010801
soa @ns2.ptd.net. for lancaster.pa.us. serial: 2002010801
SOA serial #'s agree for lancaster.pa.us.
Authoritative domain (lancaster.pa.us.) servers agree on NS for
lancaster.pa.us.
ERROR: NS list from lancaster.pa.us. authoritative servers does not
  === match NS list from parent (pa.us.) servers
NS list summary for lancaster.pa.us. from authoritative servers
  == dns1.ptd.net. dns2.ptd.net. dns3.ptd.net.
  == dns4.ptd.net. dns5.ptd.net. dns6.ptd.net.
ERROR: ns1.ptd.net. claims to be authoritative, but does not appear in
NS list from authoritative servers
ERROR: ns2.ptd.net. claims to be authoritative, but does not appear in
NS list from authoritative servers
Checking 0 potential addresses for hosts at lancaster.pa.us.
  ==
Summary:
   ERRORS found for lancaster.pa.us. (count: 3)
Done testing lancaster.pa.us.  Mon Jul 15 15:52:36 EDT 2002


More information about the bind-users mailing list