Request for help on debug output

[Kevin Darcy]

What version of BIND 8 is this? Those "noforward" lines in the debug
output don't seem to come from any BIND release I looked at from BIND 8.1
through BIND 8.2.2-p5.

(I would have sent this privately, except the return address is set to
bind-users-bounce).


- Kevin

bind-users-bounce at isc.org wrote:

> A request for help on bind 8 debug out put.
>
> The problem I have is that one test server for a domain is able to
> resolve a particular addess while several production servers for that
> domain cannot. The production servers are authoritative for different
> parts of the domain while the test server is a master for all of the
> zones (within a particular area of the administrators responsibility).
> Without having to go too much into detail I wonder if someone could
> help with the interpretation of the following debug output.
>
> The name to be resolved is:
>
> hbmdte3.markets.uk.acme  (name changed to protect the innocent!)
>
> The same client is used to try to resolve this address using two
> servers. Both servers that look up should use one of two other servers
> that are in the domain hibm.acme but are authoritative for
> markets.uk.acme.
>
> On the server that doesn't work the debug is:
>
> datagram from [10.1.77.38].2006, fd 164, len 41
> req: nlookup(hbmdte3.markets.uk.acme) id 3 type=1 class=1
> req: found 'hbmdte3.markets.uk.acme' as 'markets.uk.acme' (cname=0)
> noforward: dname=mkts-ipsrv1.hibm.acme, looking for positive
> noforward: dname=mkts-ipsrv1.hibm.acme, looking for negative
> evSetTimer(ctx 0x17d0040, func 0x411c80, uap 0, due
> 961511345.000000000, inter 0.000000000)
> sysquery: send -> [128.20.230.7].53 dfd=348 nsid=17146 id=0
> retry=961511345
> noforward: dname=mkts-ipsrv2.hibm.acme, looking for positive
> noforward: dname=mkts-ipsrv2.hibm.acme, looking for negative
> evSetTimer(ctx 0x17d0040, func 0x411c80, uap 0, due
> 961511345.000000000, inter 0.000000000)
> sysquery: send -> [128.20.230.7].53 dfd=348 nsid=17147 id=0
> retry=961511345
> forw: no nameservers found
>
> I'm not sure is the above debug means the server didn't know of *any*
> name servers or just servers for the domain markets.uk.acme . Knowing
> this might help me.
>
> On the server that does work the debug is:
>
> datagram from [10.18.91.30].3760, fd 136, len 41
> req: nlookup(hbmdte3.markets.uk.acme) id 2812 type=1 class=1
> req: found 'hbmdte3.markets.uk.acme' as 'markets.uk.acme' (cname=0)
> noforward: dname=hbmdte3.markets.uk.acme, looking for positive
> noforward: dname=hbmdte3.markets.uk.acme, looking for negative
> forw: forw -> [128.20.59.1].53 ds=516 nsid=45846 id=2812 13ms retry
> 4sec
> datagram from [128.20.59.1].53, fd 516, len 57
> send_msg -> [10.18.91.30].3760 (UDP 136) id=2812
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Jim Mozley