Unable to resolve www.springerlink.com

Hement Gopal hementg at cns.wits.ac.za
Tue May 24 07:06:30 UTC 2005


Has anyone any clue as to why this does not resolve on my BIND?
Rgds,
Hement Gopal

Hement Gopal wrote:

> Hi Stephane
>
> I ran dig trace and got ff output
>
> bash-2.05# dig +trace www.springerlink.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> +trace www.springerlink.com
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> .                       425057  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> ;; Received 244 bytes from 146.141.15.210#53(146.141.15.210) in 25 ms
>
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> ;; Received 510 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 511 ms
>
> springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      alpha.ntp.springer.de.
> springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      ns.ebsco.com.
> springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      ns.metapress.com.
> springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      spm1.springer.de.
> ;; Received 174 bytes from 192.55.83.30#53(M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 754 ms
>
> ;; Received 38 bytes from 192.129.24.9#53(alpha.ntp.springer.de) in 508 ms
>
> bash-2.05#
>
> Rgds,
> Hement
>
>
>
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
>>On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:57:31PM +0200,
>> Sherona <sherona at cns.wits.ac.za> wrote 
>> a message of 16 lines which said:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Our DNS cannot resolve www.springerlink.com. 
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>dig +trace www.springerlink.com
>>
>>to see what's going on.
>>
>>  
>>
>>>I can resolve if i set type=any
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>www.springerlink.com is an alias which may be the reason (the
>>canonical name is in another domain which is legal but may break some
>>buggy software).
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>




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