Pinging any non-existent domain hits me too

[Kevin Darcy]

There's nothing you can do about this from the BIND side. Your system resolver
is appending your local domain. You didn't mention what kind of system you're
running this on, so it's anyone's guess why your resolver is doing that...


- Kevin

unixman wrote:

> Hi there, Simon.
>
> After some more research here and on google, it appears that my domain is
> getting appended to the end of the non-existent domain during DNS
> resolution:
>
> [/home/staff/scottb]: ping crap8888eee.com
> PING crap8888eee.com.wetcanvas.com (204.214.92.109): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 204.214.92.109: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
>
> I've double/triple checked for missing periods in my zone files, but I don't
> see any. I'll check again.
>
> My resolv.conf is just a list of nameservers (the first being my box):
>
> nameserver 204.214.92.109
> nameserver 208.4.52.7
> nameserver ns.yournameservers.com
> nameserver 208.32.175.10
> nameserver 208.32.175.74
>
> Here is the primary zone file (I have several, but this is the domain that
> keeps getting appended):
>
> @     IN SOA   wetcanvas.com. hostmaster.wetcanvas.com. (
>          2001040505 ; serial
>          86400 ; refresh
>          3600 ; retry
>          3600000 ; expire
>          604800 ; default_ttl
>          )
> localhost      IN A  127.0.0.1
> www      IN CNAME wetcanvas.com.
> mail     IN CNAME wetcanvas.com.
> ftp      IN CNAME wetcanvas.com.
> @     IN MX 5  wetcanvas.com.
> @     IN NS wetcanvas.com.
> @     IN A  204.214.92.109
> *     IN A  204.214.92.109
> wetcanvas.com.    IN A  204.214.92.109
>
> Thanks much!
> Scott
>
> "Simon Waters" <Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:ai4cqp$2dkn$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> >
> > unixman wrote:
> > >
> > > [ zone file ]----------------
> >
> > Try posting resolv.conf and OS details at a guess, as I assume
> > it is appending the domain name to the request.
> >