named appears to be "broken" -- (was: really whacky issues)

[Mark (Help Desk Specialist)]

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I have, as I said before, enabled recursion via the options in 
named.conf

when I run nslookup, it responds with the authoritative nameservers for 
mydomain.name, regardless of the domain name i request.  the "Name" 
output is domain.name.requested.mydomain.name -- indicating to me that 
mydomain.name is being appended to requests.

Whenever i run whois the output is "whois: com.whois-servers.net: No 
address associated with hostname".

So, just for the hell of it, I tried setting my hostname to null ("" -- 
empty quotes), even though it could possibly foul up other services.  
The results were the same.

Any help would be appreciated.



I'm lost as to what's wrong, as I've even taken a named.conf file from 
a working server and replaced it, but to no avail.

On Jan 17, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote:

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>> I'm having some interesting problems; I've searched the list and 
>> didn't
>> seem to find any answers.
>>
>> I'm running BIND 8.3.3-REL on FreeBSD 5.0-STABLE.
>>
>> All of my name queries are appending my domain name to the query.  So,
>> if I do an nslookup on "perl.org", it indicates that it is looking up
>> "perl.org.mydomain.name".  Of course, because perl.org.mydomain.name
>> doesn't exist in my zone records, it will fail the lookup.  Ping and
>> whois also all fail to find correct information.
>>
>>
>> Some sample outputs: (I have changed my actual domain name here to
>> "mydomain.name")
>>
>> ping: cannot resolve marknernberg.com: No address associated with name
>>
>> nslookup's output:
>> $ nslookup perl.org
>> Server:  ns1.866gethost.com
>> Address:  66.70.83.244
>>
>> Name:    perl.org.mydomain.name
>> Served by:
>> - B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>> [and continues to list some of the other root servers]
>>
>> whois:
>>
>>
>> $ whois perl.org
>> whois: org.whois-servers.net: No address associated with hostname
>> [i'm presuming because the lookup for "org.whois-servers.net" is
>> failing]
>>
>> DIG, on the other hand, seems to work:
>> $ dig perl.org
>> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> perl.org
>> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>> ;; got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
>> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
>> ;; QUERY SECTION:
>> ;;      perl.org, type = A, class = IN
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> org.                    1d23h26m19s IN NS  TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.
>> org.                    1d23h26m19s IN NS  TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.
>>
>> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>> TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.      1h52m54s IN A   204.74.112.1
>> TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.      1h52m54s IN A   204.74.113.1
>>
>> ;; Total query time: 25 msec
>> ;; FROM: router.mydomain.name to SERVER: default -- 66.70.83.244
>> ;; WHEN: Sat Jan 17 13:06:24 2004
>> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 26  rcvd: 108
>>
>> [or does it?]  this doesn't seem to be the right info, either.
>>
>> Any ideas?  I can ping by IP address with no problems, and other
>> servers can access my machine using some of the domain names 
>> associated
>> with it [although not the ones for which I control the DNS].
>>
>> Mark Nernberg
>>
>>
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