NXDOMAIN Error

[Barry Margolin]

In article <200001231656.KAA29040 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov>,
Barry Finkel  <b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov> wrote:
>In December I posted a query to bind-users regarding an
>NXDOMAIN error for
>
>     barge.mcs.anl.gov
>
>Barry Margolin responded, "It's also listed as one of the nameservers
>for NONICK.ORG domain".  We have corrected that domain to use a
>different name server, but we are still seeing the NXDOMAIN error
>message.  What query was used to find the NONICK.ORG NS record that
>pointed to barge?  I would like to find out if there are other domains
>that point to barge as a name server.  Thanks.

I'm pretty sure that was the only domain in the NSI database that mentioned
it; I would have listed them all if it weren't.

The commands I used were:

whois -h whois.networksolutions.com host barge.mcs.anl.gov

to get the handle for this server, BARGE3-HST, followed by:

whois -h whois.networksolutions.com server barge3-hst

This doesn't show anything now.  I also performed the same checks at
whois.arin.net to seee if there were any reverse domains delegated to it,
but there aren't.

There may be some lower-level delegations.  The only way to find out what
these are is to turn on tracing in your server and look for the messages
that precede it trying to look up barge.mcs.anl.gov.

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