DNS problem with symantec.com
Jim McCullars
jim at info2.uah.edu
Mon Mar 22 20:02:01 UTC 2004
Greetings!
We are running BIND 8.3.4 on a Tru64 machine. This is the secondary name
server for our campus (email.uah.edu). Because BIND is one of those things
that "just always works", we have not had to tear into it to figure out
why something doesn't work. So I need some help.
We started getting complaints from campus users that the address
enterprisesecurity.symantec.com does not resolve. It is a bit wierd in that
appears to be a CNAME for a host that is not actually within the symantec.com
domain. But I would think that we should be able to resolve it. Here is the
output from nslookup. Note that when I first try to look it up, it fails.
Then I set querytype to CNAME and it finds it, then after that it finds the
A records:
bash# nslookup
Default Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
> enterprisesecurity.symantec.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
*** localhost can't find enterprisesecurity.symantec.com: Non-existent host/domain
> set querytype=cname
> enterprisesecurity.symantec.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
enterprisesecurity.symantec.com canonical name = enterprisesecurity.production.ma.circleonline.net
symantec.com nameserver = ns3.symantec.com
symantec.com nameserver = ns4.symantec.com
symantec.com nameserver = ns1.symantec.com
symantec.com nameserver = ns2.symantec.com
ns3.symantec.com internet address = 206.204.212.86
ns4.symantec.com internet address = 206.204.52.11
ns1.symantec.com internet address = 198.6.49.5
ns2.symantec.com internet address = 198.6.49.111
> set querytype=a
> enterprisesecurity.symantec.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: enterprisesecurity.production.ma.circleonline.net
Address: 64.55.213.14
Aliases: enterprisesecurity.symantec.com
Can anyone shed any light on this? TIA...
Jim McCullars
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