DNS Authority Question
David Botham
dns at botham.net
Mon Nov 25 21:31:17 UTC 2002
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Joshua Kuo
> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 11:26 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: DNS Authority Question
>
>
> hi all:
>
> i've been recently assigned the new DNS admin, and one of my new tasks
is
> to add some new MX records to one of the new machines (let's call it
> beavis.com). i've done the following:
>
> @ A 3.3.3.3
> MX 100 new.mail1.beavis.com
> MX 200 new.mail2.beavis.com
> MX 300 mail.beavis.com
>
> the original assignment was just:
>
> @ A 3.3.3.3
> MX 30 mail.beavis.com
>
> after i've done all that, did a ndc reload, and tried to do a dig on
this
> machine, i was surprised to find that the MX record was NOT updated.
> below is the result of my dig (modified, of course):
*Of course* without knowing what domain you are really having problems
with, we will not be able to help much.
I looked up beavis.com and no MX RR's are listed:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> mx beavis.com +multi
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;beavis.com. IN MX
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
beavis.com. 3435 IN SOA ns1.eun.net. registry.euronet.se. (
2002110801 ; serial
3600 ; refresh (1 hour)
900 ; retry (15 minutes)
604800 ; expire (1 week)
3600 ; minimum (1 hour)
)
;; Query time: 600 msec
Dave...
>
>
> [me at home me]$ dig beavis.com mx
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.0 <<>> beavis.com mx
> ;; global options: printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51587
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL:
2
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;beavis.com. IN MX
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> beavis.com. 86400 IN MX 30 mail.beavis.com.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> beavis.com. 86400 IN NS slave-dns.1.my.isp.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> mail.beavis.com. 86400 IN A 3.3.3.3
> dns-server.1.my.isp. 86400 IN A 20.20.20.20
>
> i am curious about the AUTHORITY SECTION, because i have 3 DNS servers
(1
> master, 2 slaves), and for some reason this machine only has the first
> slave as its authority. i did another dig on all other machines, and
they
> have all 3 of the DNS master & slaves show up as the AUTHORITY like
the
> following:
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> butthead.com. 86400 IN NS master-dns.my.isp.
> butthead.com. 86400 IN NS slave-dns.1.my.isp.
> butthead.com. 86400 IN NS slave-dns.2.my.isp.
>
>
> where is dig getting the authority section from? i have checked all my
> config files and i could not find where i could specify it. is it
> something that his machine needs to do with Network Solutions (or
whoever
> they registered the name through)?
>
> thank you very much for your time. i know this must be a newbies
question
> and many people will ignore my inexperienced question. but if someone
> could please point out some reading materials or directions, i would
> really appreciate it.
>
> -Josh
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