really whacky issues

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Jan 20 18:16:23 UTC 2004


So try some more queries with "dig" and see if the RA flag is set on the 
responses.

If you're still having the same problem, show us what's in your 
named.conf (feel free to anonymize your key info, but it's rather silly 
to anonymize any more than that).

- Kevin

Mark (Help Desk Specialist) wrote:

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>i enabled recursion via "options recursion yes".  still the same 
>problem.
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>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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>>>
>>--
>>Mark Andrews, ISC
>>1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
>>PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at isc.org
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