9.3.2 behavior - explain please

Chris Buxton cbuxton at menandmice.com
Wed Aug 1 03:22:29 UTC 2007


What name server type is this? Some name servers don't like 'any'  
queries. Try it again asking for the SOA record.

Also, is it possible there are two name servers running, one on 53/ 
UDP and the other on 53/TCP?

Chris Buxton
Men & Mice

On Jul 31, 2007, at 1:20 PM, Pavel Urban wrote:

> The question is: why I don't see the data when I'm asking localhost,
> which is configured to be a master for this zone? Is it an expected
> behavior, and is there a way to get this information from a server,  
> even
> without a delegation from 'upstream' servers? I'm persuaded that I  
> used
> to have some domains defined just locally and they resolved ok...
>
> Chris Buxton wrote:
>> What exactly is the question?
>>
>> With the +trace option to dig, you've discovered/verified that the
>> domain is not delegated from .cz. Fine, that matches what you said.
>>
>> You're able to get a zone transfer when specifying the localhost
>> server, so the server is authoritative for the zone. This also
>> matches what you said.
>>
>> No server has this data in cache. This is a normal consequence of the
>> zone not being delegated to your server.
>>
>> If you want to see the data in a database dump, remember to  
>> specify "-
>> all" in the command:
>>
>> rndc dumpdb -all
>>
>> Otherwise, the server only writes out records from cache, i.e.
>> records retrieved from other servers.
>>
>> Chris Buxton
>> Men & Mice
>>
>
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