nameserver name

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Tue Sep 23 02:05:28 UTC 2008


In article <gb8eha$1qt1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Luis Silva" <luisfilsilva at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, thanks a lot for the reply.
> Lets pretend that the names in the RFC are still the ones used. If the
> client queries the "a.isi.edu." name server asking for the A address of the
> "c.isi.edu." server, the zone information from "isi.edu." must have this
> address in the name's list, right?

Yes.

It's a pretty common mistake to leave these records out, and it results 
in intermittent failures.

> Many Thanks
> Best Regards,
> Luis
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 02:29:32PM +0100,
> >  Luis Silva <luisfilsilva at gmail.com> wrote
> >  a message of 15 lines which said:
> >
> > > I noticed that is it possible to name the Name Server without not
> > > considering the name of the zone.
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > But, what happen if the name server is only authoritive for the
> > > first zone?
> >
> > No problem and it is even a simpler case, since you do not have to
> > publish glue.
> >
> > > what happen if a client contacts directly a name server from the
> > > "isi.edu." zone with the query "A" "c.isi.edu.". This can happen
> > > right?
> >
> > Yes, and there is no problem:
> >
> > % dig @ns.east.isi.edu A c.isi.edu.
> >
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> @ns.east.isi.edu A c.isi.edu
> > ; (1 server found)
> > ;; global options:  printcmd
> > ;; Got answer:
> > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 31441
> > ...
> >
> > (Names have changed since the RFC was published.)
> >

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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