Why "dig foo" fails but "dig +trace foo" succeeds?
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Nov 17 21:38:25 UTC 2004
> Since this host is running RHEL supported with their up2date service I
> was hoping to keep to their stock RPMs, and 9.2.4rc6 is what they
> provide. I'll notify them of the issue and look into building a custom
> package with the 9.3.0 sources. Thanks for your cogent and quick
> explanation.
>
> > Next you want to eliminate a broken/misconfigured firewall
> > from the problem space. You should be able to get a answer
> > to both of these queries. If you don't you need to fix your
> > firewall to handle EDNS queries.
> >
> > dig +bufsiz=4096 www.powweb.com @a.root-servers.net
> > dig www.powweb.com @a.root-servers.net
>
> Both queries failed, so we've opened up a call to the firewall vendor as well
> .
I would expect the "+bufsiz=4096" one to fail and the other
to succeed.
> Thanks again,
>
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