frustrating lookup problem

Chris Sherman csherman at allegheny.edu
Thu Sep 23 12:29:48 UTC 2004


>> I'm having trouble looking up a few sites(a provider) from my master
>> server, but not from my slave, so of course, people using the master
>> cannot browse and send mail to some sites hosted by vianetworks.net(in
>> WHOIS).  Setting the query type to any on the master - the info shows
>> up fine, but still no A records(session below).
>
> I'm a bit confused by your references to master and slave servers.  A
> server is master or slave for specific zones, it's not a general
> property of the server.  Is your server master or slave for any of the
> zones you're asking about?

Hi Barry, and thanks.

pellns is the master for allegheny.edu and amos is the slave.

>> I'm having trouble with the following:
>>
>> creativeimprintsystems.com 66.155.17.134
>> tower23.com     66.155.55.3
>> sipco.com     66.155.40.24
>
> tower23.com has a serious problem with its delegation.  The delegation
> points to {ns1,ns2}.imconline.net, but the NS records in the zone 
> itself
> are {ns4,ns5}.vianetworks.net.
>
>> master is running 8.1.2 on tru64 v5.0(I'm trying to get this fixed
>> before I upgrade bind)
>>
>> in my master's cache:
>> tower23 155405  IN      NS      ns1.imconline.net.      ;Cr=addtnl
>>
>>
>> #nslookup
>> Default Server:  localhost
>> Address:  127.0.0.1
>>
>>> server pellns
>> Default Server:  pellns.allegheny.edu
>> Address:  141.195.5.200
>>
>>> tower23.com
>> Server:  pellns.allegheny.edu
>> Address:  141.195.5.200
>>
>> *** pellns.allegheny.edu can't find tower23.com: Non-existent
>> host/domain
>
> It's really hard to tell what's wrong when you use nslookup, it doesn't
> give precise errors.  Try dig.

Any way to do this:

Alternatively, since this has been going on a while, is their any way
to force the A records into DNS using a resource record or in a config
file?

Thanks again, Chris



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