DNS Authority Question

[David Botham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Joshua Kuo
> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 11:26 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: DNS Authority Question
> 
> 
> hi all:
> 
> i've been recently assigned the new DNS admin, and one of my new tasks
is
> to add some new MX records to one of the new machines (let's call it
> beavis.com). i've done the following:
> 
> @                       A           3.3.3.3
>                         MX 100      new.mail1.beavis.com
>                         MX 200      new.mail2.beavis.com
>                         MX 300      mail.beavis.com
> 
> the original assignment was just:
> 
> @                       A           3.3.3.3
>                         MX 30       mail.beavis.com
> 
> after i've done all that, did a ndc reload, and tried to do a dig on
this
> machine, i was surprised to find that the MX record was NOT updated.
> below is the result of my dig (modified, of course):

*Of course* without knowing what domain you are really having problems
with, we will not be able to help much.  

I looked up beavis.com and no MX RR's are listed:

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> mx beavis.com +multi
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;beavis.com.            IN MX

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
beavis.com.             3435 IN SOA ns1.eun.net. registry.euronet.se. (
                                2002110801 ; serial
                                3600       ; refresh (1 hour)
                                900        ; retry (15 minutes)
                                604800     ; expire (1 week)
                                3600       ; minimum (1 hour)
                                )

;; Query time: 600 msec

Dave...
> 
> 
> [me at home me]$ dig beavis.com mx
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> beavis.com mx
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51587
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL:
2
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;beavis.com.                    IN      MX
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> beavis.com.             86400   IN      MX      30 mail.beavis.com.
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> beavis.com.             86400   IN      NS      slave-dns.1.my.isp.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> mail.beavis.com.        86400   IN      A       3.3.3.3
> dns-server.1.my.isp.    86400   IN      A       20.20.20.20
> 
> i am curious about the AUTHORITY SECTION, because i have 3 DNS servers
(1
> master, 2 slaves), and for some reason this machine only has the first
> slave as its authority. i did another dig on all other machines, and
they
> have all 3 of the DNS master & slaves show up as the AUTHORITY like
the
> following:
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> butthead.com.             86400   IN      NS      master-dns.my.isp.
> butthead.com.             86400   IN      NS      slave-dns.1.my.isp.
> butthead.com.             86400   IN      NS      slave-dns.2.my.isp.
> 
> 
> where is dig getting the authority section from? i have checked all my
> config files and i could not find where i could specify it. is it
> something that his machine needs to do with Network Solutions (or
whoever
> they registered the name through)?
> 
> thank you very much for your time. i know this must be a newbies
question
> and many people will ignore my inexperienced question. but if someone
> could please point out some reading materials or directions, i would
> really appreciate it.
> 
> -Josh