<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;">Hi Harshith,</div> <div id="bloop_sign_1466428097560271872" class="bloop_sign"><p style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial;">On 20 June 2016 at 15:05:58, Harshith Mulky (<a href="mailto:harshith.mulky@outlook.com">harshith.mulky@outlook.com</a>) wrote:</p></div> <div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><p>I am Running bind (<span>bind-9.9.5P1-2.2.2.x86_64</span>) on Open Suse 13.2</p><p><br></p><p>I have the following Records in my Zone file</p><p><br></p><div>$ORIGIN test1.com.<br>$TTL 600<br>@ IN SOA atlanta.test1.com. admin.test1.com. (<br> 2003022720 ; Serial<br> 56800 ; Refresh<br> 14400 ; Retry<br> 3600000 ; Expire<br> 2h ) ; Minimum<br><br> IN NS atlanta.test1.com.<br><br><br>atlanta.test1.com. IN A 10.54.48.68<br></div><p>;A Records<br></p><div>denver1.test1.com. IN A 10.54.80.150<br>denver1.test10.com. IN A 10.54.80.17<br>denver2.test1.com. IN A 10.54.80.150<br> IN A 10.54.80.35<br><div>test1.com. IN A 10.54.80.150<br></div><br><br>When I am doing a dig for the record<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span><b>denver2.test1.com.</b></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for A<br><br>I am receiving this Response:<br><br><div>dig denver2.test1.com. A<br><br>; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-rpz2+rl.14038.05-P1 <<>> denver2.test1.com. A<br>;; global options: +cmd<br>;; Got answer:<br>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42085<br>;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 2<br><br>;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:<br>; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096<br>;; QUESTION SECTION:<br>;denver2.test1.com. IN A<br><br>;; ANSWER SECTION:<br><span>denver2</span>.test1.com. 600 IN A 10.54.80.150<br><span>denver2</span>.test1.com. 600 IN A 10.54.80.35<br><br>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:<br>test1.com. 600 IN NS atlanta.test1.com.<br><br>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:<br>atlanta.test1.com. 600 IN A 10.54.48.68<br><br>;; Query time: 0 msec<br>;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)<br>;; WHEN: Mon Jun 20 18:22:29 IST 2016<br>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 122<br></div><br><br>Question:<br><br>1. I am not able to understand why this answer is being Received<br><div><span>denver2</span>.test1.com. 600 IN A 10.54.80.35</div>as I have not configured any owner-name for the record type</div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>It’s not an “owner”, it’s a RR (Resource Record) ;)<br>In your zone file you have:</p><p><a href="http://denver2.test1.com/" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">denver2.test1.com</a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. IN A 10.54.80.150</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> IN A 10.54.80.35</span></p><p>So BIND interprets the 2nd line as a 2nd value for <a href="http://denver2.test1.com">denver2.test1.com</a>., which makes perfect sense.</p><p><br></p><div><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span><div dir="ltr"><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">2. If there is no owner-name specified in the DNS Records, what owner-name does the record actually pick?</span></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><p>See above: it’ll pick the previous line where you have a RR defined.</p><p><br></p><p>Cheers,</p><p>-- </p><p>Nico</p><div></div></div></body></html>