<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>I suspect that dig is confused. Let me explain.<br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Looks like WHOIS says that these (2) servers are authoritative for this domain:</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div>ns1.thehartford.com. ['162.136.188.1'] [TTL=172800]
<br>ns2.thehartford.com. ['162.136.190.1'] [TTL=172800] <br><br></div><div>However, the DNS configuration says something different, which lists these (4) servers instead:<br></div><div><br></div><div>hfdns3.thehartford.com ['162.136.188.3'] [TTL=120]
<br>hfdns4.thehartford.com ['162.136.188.4'] [TTL=120]
<br>simns3.thehartford.com ['162.136.190.3'] [TTL=120]
<br>simns4.thehartford.com ['162.136.190.4'] [TTL=120] <br></div><div><br></div><div>As one can see, they do not match nor even overlap nor even agree.</div><div>Someone needs to decide which servers are really supposed to be authoritative for this domain and have alignment in all configurations.</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.intodns.com/thehartford.com</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> M. Meadows <sun-guru@live.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> bind-users <bind-users@lists.isc.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, January 6, 2012 8:28 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> variable dig results<br> </font> <br>
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Wondering why we get variable results from the following command: <font color="#0070c0">dig <a target="_blank" href="http://eftc.thehartford.com">eftc.thehartford.com</a></font><br>
(sometimes we get authority section and additional section feedback ... sometimes we don't)<br>
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Usually we see the following:<br>
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; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 <<>> eftc.thehartford.com<br>;; global options: printcmd<br>;; Got answer:<br>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35955<br>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0<br>
;; QUESTION SECTION:<br>;eftc.thehartford.com. IN A<br>
;; ANSWER SECTION:<br>eftc.thehartford.com. 120 IN A 162.136.189.173<br>
;; Query time: 94 msec<br>;; SERVER: 172.25.17.185#53(172.25.17.185)<br>;; WHEN: Fri Jan 6 07:23:07 2012<br>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 54<br><br>
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But occasionally we see :<br>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 <<>> eftc.thehartford.com ;; global options:<span style=""> </span>printcmd ;; Got answer:</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64958 ;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri" size="1"> </font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">;; QUESTION SECTION:</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">;eftc.thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>A</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri" size="1"> </font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">;; ANSWER SECTION:</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">eftc.thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>120<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>A<span style=""> </span>162.136.189.173</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri" size="1"> </font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">;; AUTHORITY SECTION:</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>120<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>NS<span style=""> </span>hfdns3.thehartford.com.</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>120<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>NS<span style=""> </span>hfdns4.thehartford.com.</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>120<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>NS<span style=""> </span>simns3.thehartford.com.</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>120<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>NS<span style=""> </span>simns4.thehartford.com.</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri" size="1"> </font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">hfdns3.thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>120<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>A<span style=""> </span>162.136.188.3</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">hfdns4.thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>120<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>A<span style=""> </span>162.136.188.4</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">simns3.thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>120<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>A<span style=""> </span>162.136.190.3</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">simns4.thehartford.com.<span style=""> </span>120<span style=""> </span>IN<span style=""> </span>A<span style=""> </span>162.136.190.4</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri" size="1"> </font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">;; Query time: 52 msec</font></font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri"><font size="1">;; SERVER: 172.25.17.185#53(172.25.17.185) ;; WHEN: Fri Jan<span style=""> </span>6 00:10:02 2012 ;; MSG SIZE<span style=""> </span>rcvd: 202</font></font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri">I assume this is due to differences in response from different auth nameservers. If that's the case ... what does one have set up to return the 2nd response?</font></div>
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<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri">Thanks!</font></div>
<div style="MARGIN:0in 0in 0pt;" class="yiv538922897MsoPlainText"><font face="Calibri">Martin Meadows</font></div>
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