Bind and NSlookup

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c900dd$1asa$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Robb Edge" <Robb.Edge at savant.co.uk> wrote:

> Got a small problem we cant quite fathom out.
> Have Bind 8.1 running on VMS (TCPIP 5.3) as primay DNS server.
> We have 2 secondary servers, 1 is another VMS server running 8.1 and the 2nd
> is a Windows 2000 server.
> On the primary bind server have the 6 delegated zones for AD.
> _msdcs    IN NS    savad
> etc etc etc.
> Now the fun part.
> Do an nslookup against the Windows server with set type=ns for _msdcs and we
> get the following:
> 
> > server 172.20.0.4
> Default Server:  dns1.savant.co.uk
> Address:  172.20.0.4
> 
> > set type=ns
> > _msdcs
> Server:  dns1.savant.co.uk
> Address:  172.20.0.4
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> _msdcs.savant.co.uk     nameserver = savad.savant.co.uk
> _msdcs.savant.co.uk     nameserver = savant.savant.co.uk
> 
> savad.savant.co.uk      internet address = 172.20.1.100
> savant.savant.co.uk     internet address = 172.20.1.1
> 
> which is correct.
> 
> But point to the VMS bind server and we get this:

You said you have two VMS BIND servers -- which one is this?

> 
> C:\WINDOWS>nslookup
> Default Server:  dns3.savant.co.uk
> Address:  172.20.0.6
> 
> > set type=ns
> > _msdcs
> Server:  dns3.savant.co.uk
> Address:  172.20.0.6
> 
> Non-authoritative answer:
> _msdcs.savant.co.uk     canonical name = bed.uk.clara.net
> 
> uk.clara.net
>         primary name server = ns0.clara.net
>         responsible mail addr = hostmaster.clara.net
>         serial  = 2004052501
>         refresh = 10800 (3 hours)
>         retry   = 3600 (1 hour)
>         expire  = 1209600 (14 days)
>         default TTL = 18000 (5 hours)
> 
> Something some where is not right me thinks!!

Somewhere in the savant.co.uk zone is an entry like:

_msdcs IN CNAME bed.uk.clara.net.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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