Resolving confusion

[Mark Andrews]

> Dear All,
> I have bind-9.3.2-20.FC5 installed on FC5 machine and configured for
> BIND Views
> 
> I have two network interface one configured as 192.168.1.17 and the
> other one is 172.16.30.1
> Today i was trying to resolve the name www.edewania.com and below are
> the results
> 
> 1- 
>  dig @192.168.1.17 www.edewania.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> @192.168.1.17 www.edewania.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 26204
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.edewania.com.              IN      A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.edewania.com.       11966   IN      CNAME   edewania.com.
> edewania.com.           11967   IN      A       70.85.162.18
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> edewania.com.           83967   IN      NS      ns4.lindowz.com.
> edewania.com.           83967   IN      NS      ns3.lindowz.com.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns3.lindowz.com.        170657  IN      A       70.85.162.18
> 
> ;; Query time: 1 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.17#53(192.168.1.17)
> ;; WHEN: Mon May 28 16:07:28 2007
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 124
> =================== Fine =============
> 
> 2-
> dig @172.16.30.1 www.edewania.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> @172.16.30.1 www.edewania.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 36447
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.edewania.com.              IN      A
> 
> ;; Query time: 2 msec
> ;; SERVER: 172.16.30.1#53(172.16.30.1)
> ;; WHEN: Mon May 28 16:07:08 2007
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 34
> 
> ================= Fail ===============
> 
> I have checked the domain edewania.com in dnsreport.com and the report
> was ok,
> when I logged on to the DNS server and "rndc flush" it, then it started
> resolving from both IP addresses
> 
> That happens with quite some zones as well, few of them have problems
> with their DNS servers and few don't
> 
> Thank you.
 
edewania.com.           172800  IN      NS      ns3.lindowz.com.
edewania.com.           172800  IN      NS      ns4.lindowz.com.
;; Received 110 bytes from 192.42.93.30#53(G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 208 ms

dig: couldn't get address for 'ns4.lindowz.com': not found

	Of the 4 servers for lindowz.com listed in the com zone,
	2 are lame for lindowz.com and 2 don't know the addresses
	for ns3.lindowz.com and ns4.lindowz.com.

	Mark

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> ns3.lindowz.com @ns1.lindowz.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 25964
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns3.lindowz.com.		IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
lindowz.com.		86400	IN	SOA	ns1.lindowz.com. khalaf_q8.hotmail.com. 2007052600 86400 7200 3600000 86400

;; Query time: 1187 msec
;; SERVER: 74.200.204.34#53(74.200.204.34)
;; WHEN: Tue May 29 00:41:41 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 91


; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> ns4.lindowz.com @ns1.lindowz.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 39328
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ns4.lindowz.com.		IN	A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
lindowz.com.		86400	IN	SOA	ns1.lindowz.com. khalaf_q8.hotmail.com. 2007052600 86400 7200 3600000 86400

;; Query time: 245 msec
;; SERVER: 74.200.204.34#53(74.200.204.34)
;; WHEN: Tue May 29 00:42:14 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 91

-- 
Mark Andrews, ISC
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