unknown hosts appear to resolve

[Joseph S D Yao]

> I am positive I have something stupid and obvious wrong, but I can't seem
> to find the answer anywhere else, so here goes.  (Probably searching with
> the wrong keywords...)
> 
> I have 2 DNS servers for 2 separate domains.  They are (supposedly) built
> exactly alike.  (Obviously, this is not *really* the case).  Sunos 5.6,
> same hardware, same patches, bind 8.2.1.
> 
> server1:
> > nslookup noexist.com
> Server:  server1.domain1.com
> Address:  1.2.3.4
> 
> Name:    noexist.com.domain1.com
> 
> (It should return some NXDOMAIN error here...)

It would be instructive to do an 'nslookup -type=any noexist.com'.

Is it possible, e.g., that you have a wildcard MX record for
domain1.com that is being picked up?

This is purely speculation ...

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