DIG question

Sara demone33 at yahoo.it
Mon Apr 5 14:54:19 UTC 2004


Hi all,

I created a fake domain on my server (BIND 9.2.3 Linux Red-Hat 7.3).

Then I issued the following:

        # dig @localhost www.fakedomain.gr +short

Correct IP received.


# dig @localhost www.myfakedomain.gr  +trace

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> @localhost www.myfakedomain.gr +trace
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       95722   IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       95722   IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 436 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53(localhost) in 1 ms

gr.                     172800  IN      NS      GRDNS.ICS.FORTH.gr.
gr.                     172800  IN      NS      ESTIA.ICS.FORTH.gr.
gr.                     172800  IN      NS      NIC.AIX.gr.
gr.                     172800  IN      NS      DNS1.ICS.FORTH.gr.
gr.                     172800  IN      NS      GRDNS-DE.DENIC.DE.
gr.                     172800  IN      NS      GRDNS-US.ICS.FORTH.gr.
gr.                     172800  IN      NS      GRDNS-AT.ICS.FORTH.gr.
gr.                     172800  IN      NS      GRDNS-BR.ICS.FORTH.gr.
;; Received 356 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in
241 ms

gr.                     3600    IN      SOA     grdns.ics.forth.gr.
hmaster-info.ics.forth.gr. 404051313 21600 7200 2592000 3600
;; Received 102 bytes from 139.91.1.1#53(GRDNS.ICS.FORTH.gr) in 104 ms


Why in one case does BIND respond with its own data and in the other
case goes to the Internet and fails?
TIA all!

Sara


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