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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Hi all,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">We are
seeing odd behaviour when attempting to look up the following url from a range
of Redhat servers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a><span style=""> </span>should resolve to 209.202.248.251 but we see
the following.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">[xx@xxxx
~]$ host <a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Host
<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a> not found: 2(SERVFAIL)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style=""> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">But then if
we </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">[xx@xxxx~]$
dig -t any <a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;
<<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> -t any <a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;; global
options:<span style=""> </span>printcmd</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;; Got
answer:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;;
->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63245</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;; flags:
qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 1</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;; QUESTION
SECTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a>.<span style=""> </span>IN<span style="">
</span>ANY</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;; ANSWER
SECTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a>.
3600 IN<span style=""> </span>CNAME<span style=""> </span><a href="http://mail-bigmail1.bo3.lycos.com">mail-bigmail1.bo3.lycos.com</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;;
AUTHORITY SECTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://lycosmail.lycos.com">lycosmail.lycos.com</a>.<span style=""> </span>3600<span style="">
</span>IN<span style=""> </span>NS<span style=""> </span><a href="http://ns1.lycos.com">ns1.lycos.com</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://lycosmail.lycos.com">lycosmail.lycos.com</a>.<span style=""> </span>3600<span style="">
</span>IN<span style=""> </span>NS<span style=""> </span><a href="http://ns2.lycos.com">ns2.lycos.com</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://lycosmail.lycos.com">lycosmail.lycos.com</a>.<span style=""> </span>3600<span style="">
</span>IN<span style=""> </span>NS<span style=""> </span><a href="http://ns3.lycos.com">ns3.lycos.com</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://lycosmail.lycos.com">lycosmail.lycos.com</a>.<span style=""> </span>3600<span style="">
</span>IN<span style=""> </span>NS<span style=""> </span><a href="http://ns4.lycos.com">ns4.lycos.com</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;;
ADDITIONAL SECTION:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://ns4.lycos.com">ns4.lycos.com</a>.<span style=""> </span>73682<span style=""> </span>IN<span style="">
</span>A<span style=""> </span>209.202.244.142</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;; Query
time: 110 msec</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;; SERVER:
127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;; WHEN:
Fri Aug 21 14:26:47 2009</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">;; MSG
SIZE<span style=""> </span>rcvd: 166</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">And then </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">[xx@xxxx~]$
host <a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a>
is an alias for <a href="http://mail-bigmail1.bo3.lycos.com">mail-bigmail1.bo3.lycos.com</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://mail-bigmail1.bo3.lycos.com">mail-bigmail1.bo3.lycos.com</a>
has address 209.202.248.251</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">errors we see in the bind
log</span></p>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.118 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: <a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a> A</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.202 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving '<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN</a>': 209.202.244.142#53</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.286 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving '<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN</a>': 209.202.248.142#53</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.369 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving '<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN</a>': 209.202.244.141#53</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.453 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving '<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN</a>': 209.202.248.141#53</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.453 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: <a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com</a> A</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.537 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving '<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN</a>': 209.202.244.141#53</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.621 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving '<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN</a>': 209.202.248.142#53</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.704 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving '<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN</a>': 209.202.244.142#53</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.788 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving '<a href="http://bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN">bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN</a>': 209.202.248.141#53</span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-family: Arial;">05-Aug-2009 12:57:31.142 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: <a href="http://scansafe.com">scansafe.com</a> A</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">The expected
subdomain is returned, the only other FORMERR cases I’ve seen (on google) show <span style=""> </span>the authority section not matching the answer.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">A debug
trace may be found at <a href="http://the.earth.li/%7Ehuggie/lycos-bind9-issue.txt">http://the.earth.li/~huggie/lycos-bind9-issue.txt</a>
<span style=""> </span>Any suggestions as to what the issue is
or how it may be resolved would be very welcome.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Kind
Regards</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Matt<br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>