Don't understand why I get a FORMERR (quad-A - ipv6 related)

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Wed Apr 25 14:28:19 UTC 2012


>In message <CAO5znasqndyUCiKOXMb_9GE2oSYQ-nsfg1RSLu7wGedtoGGn=w at mail.gmail.com>
>, Nicolas Michel writes:
>> I have BIND 9.6-ESV-R5-P1 on SLES 11 SP1 installed and it is working fine.
>> I only have a situation where I don't understand what's happening and why :
>> I try to do a quad-A query to www.ryanair.com (which is doesn't exists,
>> only single A). When trying this with "dig" on my BIND server, I get a
>> SERVFAIL return code. When doing the same query on the google DNS (8.8.8.8)
>> I only get no answer but a return code of NOERROR.

On 25.04.12 23:53, Mark Andrews wrote:
>The root cause is that the name servers for www.ryanair.com are
>misconfigured.  They are returning answers as if they are configured
>for ryanair.com (see the SOA record) instead of www.ryanair.com as
>can be seen below.

Hmm, I've been solving their problem years ago. Haven't they still fix 
that?
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