Strange problem resolving yahoo.com

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Thu Oct 28 21:26:15 UTC 2004


Jeffrey Keil <keilj_33 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Greetings:

> We're running bind on a Macintosh OS X server. There is never any
> problem with DNS except for one domain. We have problems with
> yahoo.com and no other domain that I am aware of.

> As you can see from the output below, we can resolve yahoo.com with
> dig and nslookup, but we can't check email at yahoo because we can't
> resolve mail.yahoo.com or login.yahoo.com:

You should use appropiate tools, nslookup is not one of these.

> dig mail.yahoo.com

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> mail.yahoo.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 11, ADDITIONAL: 11
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      mail.yahoo.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mail.yahoo.com.         30M IN CNAME    login.yahoo.com.
login.yahoo.com.        5M IN CNAME     login.yahoo.akadns.net.
login.yahoo.akadns.net.  1M IN A  66.218.75.184

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  asia3.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  eur3.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  use2.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  use4.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  usw5.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  usw6.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  usw7.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  za.akadns.org.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  zc.akadns.org.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  zf.akadns.org.
akadns.net.             1d22h51m30s IN NS  zh.akadns.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
asia3.akam.net.         23h4m37s IN A   193.108.154.9
eur3.akam.net.          1d22h51m30s IN A  193.45.1.103
use2.akam.net.          1d22h51m30s IN A  63.209.170.136
use4.akam.net.          23h4m37s IN A   80.67.67.182
usw5.akam.net.          23h4m37s IN A   63.241.73.214
usw6.akam.net.          1d22h51m30s IN A  206.132.100.108
usw7.akam.net.          1d22h51m30s IN A  65.203.234.27
za.akadns.org.          4h11m30s IN A   208.185.132.176
zc.akadns.org.          4h11m30s IN A   63.241.199.54
zf.akadns.org.          4h11m30s IN A   63.241.29.161
zh.akadns.org.          4h11m30s IN A   63.208.48.46

;; Total query time: 297 msec
;; FROM: zap.hk.ipsec.se to SERVER: default -- 192.168.99.5
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 28 23:21:20 2004
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 511

>


( this was 'dig' )


> ~ root at osx2 # nslookup yahoo.com
> Server:  ns2.gcs-usa.com
> Address:  192.168.1.42

> Name:    yahoo.com
> Addresses:  66.94.234.13, 216.109.112.135

> ~ root at osx2 # nslookup mail.yahoo.com
> Server:  ns2.gcs-usa.com
> Address:  192.168.1.42

> *** ns2.gcs-usa.com can't find mail.yahoo.com: Non-existent
> host/domain
> ~ root at osx2 # nslookup login.yahoo.com
> Server:  ns2.gcs-usa.com
> Address:  192.168.1.42

> *** ns2.gcs-usa.com can't find login.yahoo.com: Non-existent
> host/domain


> ~ root at osx2 # dig login.yahoo.com

> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> login.yahoo.com 
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; res_nsend to server default -- 192.168.1.42: Operation timed out

This is not what i get :
>  dig login.yahoo.com

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> login.yahoo.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 11, ADDITIONAL: 11
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      login.yahoo.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
login.yahoo.com.        3M IN CNAME     login.yahoo.akadns.net.
login.yahoo.akadns.net.  1M IN A  66.218.75.184

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  asia3.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  eur3.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  use2.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  use4.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  usw5.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  usw6.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  usw7.akam.net.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  za.akadns.org.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  zc.akadns.org.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  zf.akadns.org.
akadns.net.             1d22h49m30s IN NS  zh.akadns.org.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
asia3.akam.net.         23h2m37s IN A   193.108.154.9
eur3.akam.net.          1d22h49m30s IN A  193.45.1.103
use2.akam.net.          1d22h49m30s IN A  63.209.170.136
use4.akam.net.          23h2m37s IN A   80.67.67.182
usw5.akam.net.          23h2m37s IN A   63.241.73.214
usw6.akam.net.          1d22h49m30s IN A  206.132.100.108
usw7.akam.net.          1d22h49m30s IN A  65.203.234.27
za.akadns.org.          4h9m30s IN A    208.185.132.176
zc.akadns.org.          4h9m30s IN A    63.241.199.54
zf.akadns.org.          4h9m30s IN A    63.241.29.161
zh.akadns.org.          4h9m30s IN A    63.208.48.46

;; Total query time: 409 msec
;; FROM: zap.hk.ipsec.se to SERVER: default -- 192.168.99.5
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 28 23:23:20 2004
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 33  rcvd: 493


> ~ root at osx2 # dig yahoo.com

> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> yahoo.com 
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 5, ADDITIONAL:
> 5
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      yahoo.com, type = A, class = IN

> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> yahoo.com.              5M IN A         66.94.234.13
> yahoo.com.              5M IN A         216.109.112.135

> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> yahoo.com.              1d23h29m53s IN NS  ns1.yahoo.com.
> yahoo.com.              1d23h29m53s IN NS  ns2.yahoo.com.
> yahoo.com.              1d23h29m53s IN NS  ns3.yahoo.com.
> yahoo.com.              1d23h29m53s IN NS  ns4.yahoo.com.
> yahoo.com.              1d23h29m53s IN NS  ns5.yahoo.com.

> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns1.yahoo.com.          1d4h6m3s IN A   66.218.71.63
> ns2.yahoo.com.          1d4h6m3s IN A   66.163.169.170
> ns3.yahoo.com.          1d4h6m3s IN A   217.12.4.104
> ns4.yahoo.com.          1d4h6m3s IN A   63.250.206.138
> ns5.yahoo.com.          1d4h6m3s IN A   216.109.116.17

> ;; Total query time: 101 msec
> ;; FROM: osx2 to SERVER: default -- 192.168.1.42
> ;; WHEN: Wed Oct 27 10:56:09 2004
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 27  rcvd: 238


> This is a problem that is getting worse. I can't even pull up yahoo's
> web site in a browser now. I'm not sure what the problem is. Any help
> or suggestions would be greatly appreciatedly.

> Thanks,
> Jeff

You might have a problem yoth your ISP's routing. Is the problem persistent ?





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