bind 8.1.2 vs bind 8.2.2 on SunOS 4.1.X

[Ian G Batten]

Thanks for your advice, Mark, but I bring bad tidings...

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Mark_Andrews at iengines.com wrote:

> 
> 	I would fix the following error:
> 
>  ex-biff-boot.ftel.co.uk has CNAME and other data (invalid)
> 
> 	This has always been illegal and has always been logged.
> 	BIND 8.2 made it a hard error which leads to SERVFAIL (rc=2)
> 	being returned which in turn caused the resolver to terminate
> 	it search.
> 
>  428.   [bug]           CNAME and other data is now a hard error.
> 
> 	Mark

I've done that.  It doesn't appear, on the face of it, to make a huge
difference.  Serial 1999102807 has had all reference to ex-biff-boot
expunged, and loads without any warnings other than

Oct 28 15:54:39 [3051] Zone "20.172.IN-ADDR.ARPA" (file
ftel-lane-20.rev): No default TTL set using SOA minimum instead

and similar, which I believe to be benign.

There's a profound difference in the `no' that I get back for the
(admittedly odd, but I'm sure I'm not the only person doing it) lookup
of, for example, silver.ftel.co.uk.ftel.co.uk.

Here's the 8.1 dig talking to the 8.2.2 server:

kevin.ftel.co.uk# dig silver.ftel.co.uk.ftel.co.uk

; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> silver.ftel.co.uk.ftel.co.uk 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      silver.ftel.co.uk.ftel.co.uk, type = A, class = IN

;; Total query time: 13 msec
;; FROM: kevin.ftel.co.uk to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 28 16:01:10 1999
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 46  rcvd: 46


And here it is talking to the 8.1.2 server:

kevin.ftel.co.uk# dig silver.ftel.co.uk.ftel.co.uk

; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> silver.ftel.co.uk.ftel.co.uk 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      silver.ftel.co.uk.ftel.co.uk, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ftel.co.uk.             1D IN SOA       dns2.ftel.co.uk. postmaster.ftel.co.uk. (
                                        1999102807      ; serial
                                        8H              ; refresh
                                        2H              ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        1D )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 11 msec
;; FROM: kevin.ftel.co.uk to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 28 16:02:14 1999
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 46  rcvd: 108