Unable to resolve www.springerlink.com

[Dani Al-Hasan]

Hello,
 
 
> ;; Received 174 bytes from 192.55.83.30#53(M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 754 ms
>
> ;; Received 38 bytes from 192.129.24.9#53(alpha.ntp.springer.de) in 508 ms
I can see from this part that there is something strange!!!
When it asks "alpha.ntp.springer.de" to resolve www.springerlink.com it
replies nothing!!!
It should give the the IP address (A record since it is the default)

Best Regards,
Dani Al-Hasan


 


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From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf
Of Hement Gopal
Sent: Tuesday, 24 May, 2005 10:07 AM
Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>; bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Unable to resolve www.springerlink.com
Importance: Low


Has anyone any clue as to why this does not resolve on my BIND?
Rgds,
Hement Gopal

Hement Gopal wrote:

> Hi Stephane
>
> I ran dig trace and got ff output
>
> bash-2.05# dig +trace www.springerlink.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> +trace www.springerlink.com
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> .                       425057  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> .                       425057  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> ;; Received 244 bytes from 146.141.15.210#53(146.141.15.210) in 25 ms
>
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> com.                    172800  IN      NS      L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
> ;; Received 510 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 511 ms
>
> springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      alpha.ntp.springer.de.
> springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      ns.ebsco.com.
> springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      ns.metapress.com.
> springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      spm1.springer.de.
> ;; Received 174 bytes from 192.55.83.30#53(M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 754 ms
>
> ;; Received 38 bytes from 192.129.24.9#53(alpha.ntp.springer.de) in 508 ms
>
> bash-2.05#
>
> Rgds,
> Hement
>
>
>
> Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
>>On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:57:31PM +0200,
>> Sherona <sherona at cns.wits.ac.za> wrote 
>> a message of 16 lines which said:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>Our DNS cannot resolve www.springerlink.com. 
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>dig +trace www.springerlink.com
>>
>>to see what's going on.
>>
>>  
>>
>>>I can resolve if i set type=any
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>www.springerlink.com is an alias which may be the reason (the
>>canonical name is in another domain which is legal but may break some
>>buggy software).
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>