Name Resolve

[Chris Thompson]

On Mar 15 2007, Stefan Puiu wrote:

>By the way, check the domain that's causing you trouble with dnsreport.com:
>
>http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=getfreesofts.com
>
>It seems some of the NS entries have CNAMEs in the hostname part.
>However, I'm not sure if that can trigger a SERVFAIL from BIND.

Yes, definitely. What happens is that as long as BIND is relying on
glue A records got from the .com servers, everything works, but once
the CNAMEs get into the cache it all goes pear-shaped.

dns2.registerfly.com and dns3.registerfly.com are CNAMEs. 
dns1.registerfly.com is in an even sicker state, having an A
record _and_ a CNAME (no modern BIND would let that happen).

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk