have DNS show two IP's for one server

[Sten Carlsen]

I see two addresses:

$dig www.mytwinn.com any

; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> www.mytwinn.com any
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12091
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.mytwinn.com.               IN      ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.mytwinn.com.        900     IN      A       64.78.154.27
www.mytwinn.com.        900     IN      A       64.78.154.28

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
mytwinn.com.            900     IN      NS      cons1.kbkids.com.
mytwinn.com.            900     IN      NS      cons2.kbkids.com.

;; Query time: 222 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.14.254#53(192.168.14.254)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 26 00:45:20 2006
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 112


Mike Ciccone wrote:
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> I'm sorry the abc123.com... wasn't the actual server.  The actual server 
> is www.mytwinn.com
> Internally I get the following:
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> nslookup www.mytwinn.com
> Server:         127.0.0.1
> Address:        127.0.0.1#53
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> Name:   www.mytwinn.com
> Address: 64.78.154.27
> Name:   www.mytwinn.com
> Address: 64.78.154.28
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> If I run the nslookup from an outside source I only get one address 
> (either one but only one)
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> For example:
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> Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> 
> 10/25/2006 02:32 PM
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> To
> cagspy <mciccone at etoys.com>
> cc
> comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject
> Re: have DNS show two IP's for one server
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> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:43:19PM -0700,
>  cagspy <mciccone at etoys.com> wrote 
>  a message of 12 lines which said:
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>> When I run nslookup or dig from my dns server for my server
>> abc123.com.  I get both external IP's for that server.  When I go
>> out to the internet and do a lookup.  I only get one IP
>>     
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> I indeed see one IP address:
>
> % dig A abc123.com.
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> A abc123.com.
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 18465
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
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> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;abc123.com.                    IN      A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> abc123.com.             86375   IN      A       71.18.51.167
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> abc123.com.             86375   IN      NS      ns5.ixwebhosting.com.
> abc123.com.             86375   IN      NS      ns6.ixwebhosting.com.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns5.ixwebhosting.com.   172667  IN      A       72.41.223.250
> ns6.ixwebhosting.com.   172667  IN      A       72.41.191.250
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> ;; Query time: 1 msec
> ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Oct 25 22:32:00 2006
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 125
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>> (it does alternate). 
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> Can you post the actual results you got, both internally and on the
> remote machine? Because your description does not seem to be complete.
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Best regards

Sten Carlsen

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