bind 9 not working for outside domains
Sherona Hoosen
sherona at cns.wits.ac.za
Tue Oct 28 09:18:50 UTC 2003
Hi
How do I enable recursion as well as get the latest copy of root.hints file
Dig gives the following response
# dig @mail3 delphi.wits.ac.za
For local server request
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @mail3 delphi.wits.ac.za
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14020
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 9, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;delphi.wits.ac.za. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
delphi.wits.ac.za. 86400 IN A 146.141.15.243
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
wits.ac.za. 86400 IN NS hermes.is.co.za.
wits.ac.za. 86400 IN NS shannon.ee.wits.ac.za.
wits.ac.za. 86400 IN NS dns.cs.wits.ac.za.
wits.ac.za. 86400 IN NS max.wits.ac.za.
wits.ac.za. 86400 IN NS rain.psg.com.
wits.ac.za. 86400 IN NS hippo.ru.ac.za.
wits.ac.za. 86400 IN NS mail1.wits.ac.za.
wits.ac.za. 86400 IN NS mail3.wits.ac.za.
wits.ac.za. 86400 IN NS apollo.is.co.za.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns.cs.wits.ac.za. 259200 IN A 146.141.27.9
max.wits.ac.za. 86400 IN A 146.141.15.232
mail1.wits.ac.za. 86400 IN A 146.141.15.210
mail3.wits.ac.za. 86400 IN A 146.141.15.98
;; Query time: 8 msec
;; SERVER: 146.141.15.98#53(mail3)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 28 11:21:43 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 316
FOR OUSIDE SERVER
# dig @mail3 www.is.co.za
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> @mail3 www.is.co.za
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51968
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.is.co.za. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 518400 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
. 518400 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Query time: 8 msec
;; SERVER: 146.141.15.98#53(mail3)
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 28 11:22:05 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 241
Thanks
Cheers
Sherona
----- Original Message -----
From: <Mark_Andrews at isc.org>
To: "Sherona Hoosen" <sherona at cns.wits.ac.za>
Cc: <bind9-users at isc.org>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: bind 9 not working for outside domains
>
> > Hi
> > I installed bind9.2.2 on solaris8. We are authorative for wits.ac.za
domain
> > I seems to be working fine for our authoratative domain
> >
> > nslookup for sunsite.wits.ac.za is as follows
> >
> > > sunsite.wits.ac.za
> > Server: mail3.wits.ac.za
> > Address: 146.141.15.98
> >
> > Name: sunsite.wits.ac.za
> > Address: 146.141.97.214
> > > www.is.co.za.
> > Server: mail3.wits.ac.za
> > Address: 146.141.15.98
> >
> > Name: www.is.co.za
> > Served by:
> > - rain.psg.com
> >
> > za
> > - apies.frd.ac.za
> >
> > za
> > - hippo.ru.ac.za
> >
> > za
> > - auth00.ns.uu.net
> >
> > za
> > - ns-ext.vix.com
> >
> > za
> > - ucthpx.uct.ac.za
> >
> > za
> > - munnari.oz.au
> >
> > za
> > - ns.ripe.net
> >
> > za
> > - flag.ep.net
> >
> > za
> >
> > Any idea what could be causing this
> >
> > Also when doing lookup on outside domain I need to put a full-stop at
the end
> > ie (www.is.co.za.)
> > If I lookup www.is.co.za (without full stop) I get the following
response
> >
> > > www.is.co.za
> > Server: mail3.wits.ac.za
> > Address: 146.141.15.98
> >
> > Name: www.is.co.za.ac.za
> > Served by:
> > - apies.frd.ac.za
> >
> > za
> > - hippo.ru.ac.za
> >
> > za
> > - auth00.ns.uu.net
> >
> > za
> > - ns-ext.vix.com
> >
> > za
> > - ucthpx.uct.ac.za
> >
> > za
> > - munnari.oz.au
> >
> > za
> > - ns.ripe.net
> >
> > za
> > - flag.ep.net
> >
> > za
> > - rain.psg.com
> >
> > za
> >
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sherona
> > However when doing a lookup for some other domain
> > I get the following response
>
> Firstly use 'dig' not 'nslookup'. 'dig' displays the complete
> response.
>
> Secondly I suspect that you have disabled recursion for this
> client. The 'dig' response would have let us see that.
>
> Mark
> --
> Mark Andrews, Internet Software Consortium
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews at isc.org
>
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