How to get BIND to query the right server?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cdmaq4$1kqv$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 adam at irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) wrote:

> I tried getting named to dump.  On Machine 2, I found this in
> named_dump.db: 
> 
> GOV	86400	IN	NS	L3.NSTLD.COM.	;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 	86400	IN	NS	D3.NSTLD.COM.	;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 	86400	IN	NS	A3.NSTLD.COM.	;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 	86400	IN	NS	E3.NSTLD.COM.	;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 	86400	IN	NS	C3.NSTLD.COM.	;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 	86400	IN	NS	F3.NSTLD.COM.	;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 	86400	IN	NS	G3.NSTLD.COM.	;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 	86400	IN	NS	B3.NSTLD.COM.	;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 	86400	IN	NS	M3.NSTLD.COM.	;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 
> But on Machine 1, which works, named_dump.db has this:
> 
> GOV	172800	IN	NS	A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	;Cl=0
> 	172800	IN	NS	H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	;Cl=0
> 	172800	IN	NS	C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	;Cl=0
> 	172800	IN	NS	G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	;Cl=0
> 	172800	IN	NS	F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	;Cl=0
> 	172800	IN	NS	B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	;Cl=0
> 	172800	IN	NS	I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	;Cl=0
> 	172800	IN	NS	E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	;Cl=0
> 	172800	IN	NS	D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	;Cl=0
> 
> Somehow I need to convince BIND on Machine 2 to stop querying the
> wrong server and start querying the right one, but I can't figure out
> how to tell it what to do.

Neither of those seems right.  I see:

barmar $ dig gov ns @a.root-servers.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> gov ns @a.root-servers.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24758
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 7

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gov.          IN NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gov.        172800   IN NS G.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.        172800   IN NS F.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.        172800   IN NS E.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.        172800   IN NS D.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.        172800   IN NS C.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.        172800   IN NS B.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov.        172800   IN NS A.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
G.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.  172800   IN A  66.135.32.100
F.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.  172800   IN A  66.197.185.229
E.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.  172800   IN A  82.165.40.134
D.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.  172800   IN A  209.97.207.48
C.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.  172800   IN A  69.72.142.35
B.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.  172800   IN A  206.51.224.229
A.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.  172800   IN A  216.55.155.29

;; Query time: 31 msec
;; SERVER: 198.41.0.4#53(a.root-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Wed Jul 21 15:17:41 2004
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 261

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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