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[David Botham]

bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote on 11/09/2004 05:02:35 PM:
> Hi, I'm an erstwhile DNS admin and am using BIND 9 on my home network. I 

> have DNS running and it resolves correctly from both inside and outside 
> my LAN (I have broadband connection w/static IP). The only exception is 
> that if if "dig domain.com", I don't get back an answer. Heres' the 
> reply:
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> mydomain
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 54292
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;mydomain.com.               IN      A
> 
> ;; Query time: 20 msec
> ;; SERVER: 129.105.49.1#53(129.105.49.1)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Nov  9 15:49:07 2004
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 33
> 
> 
> If I query for a particlular service that's configured in DNS, I get 
> back what I expect. For example query for my web server returns this:
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> www.mydomain.com
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 42851
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.mydomain.com.           IN      A
> 
> ;; Query time: 53 msec
> ;; SERVER: 129.105.49.1#53(129.105.49.1)
> ;; WHEN: Tue Nov  9 15:53:57 2004
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 37

Did you really expect to get a SERVFAIL?  Or perhaps, when you where 
editing the output to clean out what you think is security related data 
(from what is by the way an intrinsically public database), you messed up 
a little and pasted the wrong thing?

Perhaps you would consider posting the *real* results.


Dave...



> 
> It may be that I'm mis-using "dig", but I'm not sure. Can someone help 
> me out?
> TIA
> 
>