Dig ANY gives SERVFAIL / FORMERR

Jeremy C. Reed jreed at isc.org
Wed Sep 23 20:33:25 UTC 2009


> It looks like that the authoritative name server for youbei.cc
> actually did return some answers, but somehow bind gave a FORMERR for
> some unknown reasons, which I think it caused a SERVFAIL to be
> reported in turn. Interestingly, dig any youbei.cc +trace ran
> successfully and did not report any error.
>
> Does anyone know what might have caused this problem?

My custom named logs:

23-Sep-2009 15:00:29.749 resolver: notice: FORMERR: Type didn't match (ANY != A)
23-Sep-2009 15:00:29.770 resolver: notice: FORMERR: Reply has no answer.

named wants to know "Is the question the same as the one we asked?"

I think 72dns.com has a broken DNS server.




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