Forward record for WWW

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.731.1462469692.73610.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 "Cuttler, Brian R. (HEALTH)" <brian.cuttler at health.ny.gov> wrote:

> Since this is only a test server not production, and lives in the DMZ it must 
> be blocked at the FW.
> 
> # dig with no specification for query type and with "A" both give the same 
> result. Dig with q-type "any" is output included.
> 
> Sorry that prior email had bad line breaks, looked ok when I wrote it but 
> they have moved us to outlook and I am apparently not sufficient proficient 
> in its use.

The output shows that there clearly isn't an A record for the zone apex. 
You need to post the zone file if you want help with what you did wrong.

My guess is you either forgot the "." at the end of the name, or didn't 
reload the server after updating the zone file.

> 
> This is the output from dig against this server.
> 
> [euclid] ~ 201> dig @199.184.16.7 wadsworth.org
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.10.2-P3 <<>> @199.184.16.7 wadsworth.org
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8047
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;wadsworth.org.                 IN      A
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> wadsworth.org.          86400   IN      SOA     pauling.wadsworth.org. 
> qll.wadsworth.org. 1603081507 10800 3600 604800 86400
> 
> ;; Query time: 0 msec
> ;; SERVER: 199.184.16.7#53(199.184.16.7)
> ;; WHEN: Thu May 05 13:29:15 EDT 2016
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 90
> 
> 
> 
> [euclid] ~ 213> dig any @199.184.16.7 wadsworth.org
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.10.2-P3 <<>> any @199.184.16.7 wadsworth.org
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62021
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 5
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;wadsworth.org.                 IN      ANY
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> wadsworth.org.          86400   IN      MX      10 smtptoo.wadsworth.org.
> wadsworth.org.          86400   IN      MX      10 smtpproxy.wadsworth.org.
> wadsworth.org.          86400   IN      MX      5 wish1.wadsworth.org.
> wadsworth.org.          86400   IN      TXT     "v=spf1 ptr:wadsworth.org 
> ip4:199.184.28.0/22 ?all"
> wadsworth.org.          86400   IN      SOA     pauling.wadsworth.org. 
> qll.wadsworth.org. 1603081507 10800 3600 604800 86400
> wadsworth.org.          86400   IN      NS      ns1.albany.edu.
> wadsworth.org.          86400   IN      NS      pauling.wadsworth.org.
> wadsworth.org.          86400   IN      NS      beacon.health.state.ny.us.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> wish1.wadsworth.org.    86400   IN      A       199.184.16.38
> smtptoo.wadsworth.org.  86400   IN      A       199.184.16.18
> smtpproxy.wadsworth.org. 86400  IN      A       199.184.16.16
> pauling.wadsworth.org.  86400   IN      A       199.184.16.6
> 
> ;; Query time: 0 msec
> ;; SERVER: 199.184.16.7#53(199.184.16.7)
> ;; WHEN: Thu May 05 13:30:49 EDT 2016
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 369
> 
> [euclid] ~ 214>
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stephane Bortzmeyer [mailto:bortzmeyer at nic.fr]
> > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 12:12 PM
> > To: Cuttler, Brian R. (HEALTH) <brian.cuttler at health.ny.gov>
> > Cc: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>; bind-users at lists.isc.org
> > Subject: Re: Forward record for WWW
> > 
> > ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open
> > attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 04:06:06PM +0000,  Cuttler, Brian R. (HEALTH)
> > <brian.cuttler at health.ny.gov> wrote  a message of 34 lines which said:
> > 
> > > I configured the change for my external test server only
> > > (199.184.16.7, which is _probably_ available for external query)
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > % dig @199.184.16.7 A wadsworth.org
> > 
> > ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u6-Debian <<>> @199.184.16.7 A wadsworth.org ; (1
> > server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; connection timed out; no servers
> > could be reached

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Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA