sendmail and dig hangs on earthlink.net

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> In article <39255f0b.5972317 at news.earthlink.net>,
> Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. <FrankRam at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >$ dig earthlink.net any
> >
> >; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> earthlink.net any 
> >;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> >----- Hangs until <Ctrl>C ---------
> 
> Strange, it works fine for me using the same nameserver as you.  The only
> apparent difference is that I'm using DiG 8.1 and you're using 8.2.
> 
> An interesting thing that I notice, though, is that RR's nameserver always
> returns an authoritative answer for ANY queries -- it doesn't seem to use
> its cache.  They're apparently not running BIND there.

	And the implementation is broken as it does not even support RFC1035
	correctly:

	* rd should be set in the answer flags
	* the NS rrset in the authority section is truncated and tc is not
	  set.

	Mark
> 
> % dig earthlink.net any @dns1.texas.rr.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> earthlink.net any @dns1.texas.rr.com 
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10
> ;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 21, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;	earthlink.net, type = ANY, class = IN
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.120.200
> earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.121.201
> earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.120.202
> earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.121.203
> earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.120.204
> earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.121.205
> earthlink.net.		30M IN A	207.217.120.206
> earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns1.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns2.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns3.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns4.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN SOA	ns1.earthlink.net. dns-admin.ea
> rthlink.net. (
> 					2000051102	; serial
> 					1D		; refresh
> 					5M		; retry
> 					4w2d		; expiry
> 					30M )		; minimum
> 
> earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx00.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx01.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx02.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx03.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx04.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx05.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx06.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx07.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN MX	5 mx08.earthlink.net.
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns1.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns2.earthlink.net.
> earthlink.net.		30M IN NS	ns3.earthlink.net.
> 
> ;; Total query time: 504 msec
> ;; FROM: tools to SERVER: dns1.texas.rr.com  24.93.35.32
> ;; WHEN: Fri May 19 14:09:50 2000
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 31  rcvd: 492
> 
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