Delegation not working

Chris Buxton cbuxton at menandmice.com
Thu May 7 19:27:41 UTC 2009


+trace turns on the recursor in the 'dig' command itself. It tells you  
absolutely nothing about the server you specified.

Chris Buxton
Professional Services
Men & Mice

On May 7, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Mike Bernhardt wrote:

> Reformatting the dig request gives the following:
>
> dig +trace @athena -x 10.0.2.252
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> +trace @athena -x 10.0.2.252
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> .                       163824  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       163824  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
>
> ;; Received 500 bytes from 148.165.30.30#53(148.165.30.30) in 0 ms
>
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
> Since this server can't reach the root servers, this makes sense. But
> apparently it isn't following delegation.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Buxton [mailto:cbuxton at menandmice.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:19 PM
> To: Mike Bernhardt
> Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Subject: Re: Delegation not working
>
> On May 7, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Mike Bernhardt wrote:
>> dig -x +trace @athena 10.0.2.252
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;+trace.in-addr.arpa.           IN      PTR
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;10.0.2.252.                    IN      A
>
> You've given dig the wrong arguments. You gave it two queries,
> indicated above, neither of which is what you wanted.
>
> Try this:
>
> dig @athena -x 10.0.2.252
>
> Chris Buxton
> Professional Services
> Men & Mice
>




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