'findns error' message

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Mon May 13 17:43:52 UTC 2002


In article <abor8k$ftps$1 at isrv4.isc.org>,  <graham.lake at trelleborg.com> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I have delegated three domains on an internal DNS infrastructure to 3
>sites: 2 of them resolve queries OK across domains, but the third gives an
>error message in the NS log that I am querying:
>
>sysquery: findns error (3) on dnsbre.bre.tau.trelleborg.com.
>
>I get a similar message from the slave of the bre.tau.trelleborg.com, too:
>
>sysquery: findns error (3) on dnsbre2.bre.tau.trelleborg.com.
>
>The query I am sending is:
>
>nslookup
>>set type=soa
>>bre.tau.trelleborg.com.
>
>The delegation in the 'tau.trelleborg.com' zone appears to be correct -
>this is confirmed by the fact that the server I am querying is trying to
>ask the name servers of the bre.tau.trelleborg.com zone to resolve the
>query!

You need an A record for bre.tau.trelleborg.com in the parent domain.  This
is called a "glue record", and it's needed whenever the subdomain's
nameserver is in that subdomain.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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