forwarding problem

[Hulman, Patrick (CCI-Atlanta)]

I'm getting intermittent forwarding for my reverse dns.  I'm using bind =
8.3.3 on solaris 8.

Locally, the names will resovle correctly using nslookup, not always the =
case with dig. =20
Here is my portion of my named.conf file


zone "227.14.68.in-addr.arpa" {
        type forward;
        forwarders { 68.99.120.55; 68.99.120.48; };
};

zone "228.14.68.in-addr.arpa" {
        type forward;
        forwarders { 68.99.120.55; 68.99.120.48; };
};

There are no master forwarding statements

here are the nslookup/dig results
First I wanted to check to see how other dns servers would get results.  =
So I followed page 288 of Dns and Bind and got the following

Default Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

> set nosearch
> set norec
> 68.14.228.22
Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

Authoritative answers can be found from:
228.14.68.in-addr.arpa  nameserver =3D ns1.coxmail.com
228.14.68.in-addr.arpa  nameserver =3D ns2.coxmail.com
ns1.coxmail.com internet address =3D 68.99.120.55
ns2.coxmail.com internet address =3D 68.99.120.48

Nothing unexpected. So I tried another.


> 68.14.227.222
Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

Authoritative answers can be found from:
68.in-addr.arpa nameserver =3D ARROWROOT.ARIN.NET
68.in-addr.arpa nameserver =3D BUCHU.ARIN.NET
68.in-addr.arpa nameserver =3D CHIA.ARIN.NET
68.in-addr.arpa nameserver =3D DILL.ARIN.NET
68.in-addr.arpa nameserver =3D EPAZOTE.ARIN.NET
68.in-addr.arpa nameserver =3D FIGWORT.ARIN.NET
68.in-addr.arpa nameserver =3D GINSENG.ARIN.NET
68.in-addr.arpa nameserver =3D HENNA.ARIN.NET
68.in-addr.arpa nameserver =3D INDIGO.ARIN.NET
ARROWROOT.ARIN.NET      internet address =3D 198.133.199.110
BUCHU.ARIN.NET  internet address =3D 192.100.59.110
CHIA.ARIN.NET   internet address =3D 192.5.6.32
DILL.ARIN.NET   internet address =3D 192.35.51.32
EPAZOTE.ARIN.NET        internet address =3D 192.41.162.32
FIGWORT.ARIN.NET        internet address =3D 192.42.93.32
GINSENG.ARIN.NET        internet address =3D 192.33.14.32
HENNA.ARIN.NET  internet address =3D 192.26.92.32
INDIGO.ARIN.NET internet address =3D 192.31.80.32
*** No address (A) records available for 68.14.227.222

So why did i get this result?
I did a dig to see what it got.

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> 68.14.227.222
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 2
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      68.14.227.222, type =3D A, class =3D IN

;; Total query time: 8 msec
;; FROM: fed1nses to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 15 13:55:02 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 31


then i did a nslookup

nslookup
Default Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

> 68.14.227.222
Server:  localhost
Address:  127.0.0.1

Name:    wsip68-14-227-222.ph.ph.cox.net
Address:  68.14.227.222

and redid the dig

> dig 68.14.227.222

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> 68.14.227.222
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 2
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      68.14.227.222, type =3D A, class =3D IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       3H IN SOA       A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. =
NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. (
                                        2002101500      ; serial
                                        30M             ; refresh
                                        15M             ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 8 msec
;; FROM: fed1nses to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 15 13:55:21 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 106

i did a dump of the db and see the following

; 227.14.68.in-addr.arpa (type 5, class 1, source Nil)
;       time=3D0, lastupdate=3D0, serial=3D0,
;       refresh=3D0, retry=3D0, expire=3D0, minimum=3D0
;       ftime=3D0, xaddrcnt=3D0, state=3D80040, pid=3D0
; 228.14.68.in-addr.arpa (type 5, class 1, source Nil)
;       time=3D0, lastupdate=3D0, serial=3D0,
;       refresh=3D0, retry=3D0, expire=3D0, minimum=3D0
;       ftime=3D0, xaddrcnt=3D0, state=3D80040, pid=3D0

So the question is why aren't my machines forwarding to others =
correctly?  Did I stumble on a bug or am I misconfiguring?

patrick