really whacky issues

[Mark (Help Desk Specialist)]

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i enabled recursion via "options recursion yes".  still the same 
problem.

mark.

On Jan 17, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Mark.Andrews at isc.org wrote:

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>> I'm having some interesting problems; I've searched the list and 
>> didn't
>> seem to find any answers.
>>
>> I'm running BIND 8.3.3-REL on FreeBSD 5.0-STABLE.
>>
>> All of my name queries are appending my domain name to the query.  So,
>> if I do an nslookup on "perl.org", it indicates that it is looking up
>> "perl.org.mydomain.name".  Of course, because perl.org.mydomain.name
>> doesn't exist in my zone records, it will fail the lookup.  Ping and
>> whois also all fail to find correct information.
>>
>>
>> Some sample outputs: (I have changed my actual domain name here to
>> "mydomain.name")
>>
>> ping: cannot resolve marknernberg.com: No address associated with name
>>
>> nslookup's output:
>> $ nslookup perl.org
>> Server:  ns1.866gethost.com
>> Address:  66.70.83.244
>>
>> Name:    perl.org.mydomain.name
>> Served by:
>> - B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
>>
>> [and continues to list some of the other root servers]
>>
>> whois:
>>
>>
>> $ whois perl.org
>> whois: org.whois-servers.net: No address associated with hostname
>> [i'm presuming because the lookup for "org.whois-servers.net" is
>> failing]
>>
>> DIG, on the other hand, seems to work:
>> $ dig perl.org
>> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> perl.org
>> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>> ;; got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
>> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
>> ;; QUERY SECTION:
>> ;;      perl.org, type = A, class = IN
>>
>> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>> org.                    1d23h26m19s IN NS  TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.
>> org.                    1d23h26m19s IN NS  TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.
>>
>> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>> TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.      1h52m54s IN A   204.74.112.1
>> TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.      1h52m54s IN A   204.74.113.1
>>
>> ;; Total query time: 25 msec
>> ;; FROM: router.mydomain.name to SERVER: default -- 66.70.83.244
>> ;; WHEN: Sat Jan 17 13:06:24 2004
>> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 26  rcvd: 108
>>
>> [or does it?]  this doesn't seem to be the right info, either.
>>
>> Any ideas?  I can ping by IP address with no problems, and other
>> servers can access my machine using some of the domain names 
>> associated
>> with it [although not the ones for which I control the DNS].
>>
>> Mark Nernberg
>>
>>
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