No authority for domain

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sun Sep 26 20:36:35 UTC 2004


In article <cj6v5q$1feo$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Tommy" <tomnospam at lugh.boley.org> wrote:

> "dig authority machinename" does not show authority when run from a shell
> on my isp.  Is there any other way for me to determine what they believe
> is the athourity for my domain.

"authority" is not a valid resource record type.  If you want to see 
what they believe the nameservers are for your domain, query for NS 
records:

dig <yourdomain> ns

> There is a discrepency between my zone file and queries to my isps dns
> server, (they are supposed to be my secondary)  I thought perhaps the
> serial numbers got messed up, or they might have themselves incorrectly
> set as the SOA.  If I can't get a there dns server to tell me what can I
> do to investigate this.  Thanks 

If you want to see the SOA record, use:

dig <yourdomain> soa

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