One Domain; Multiple IPs.

[James A Griffin]

Simon Waters wrote:
> 
> Kevin Darcy wrote:
> >
> > BTW, try querying www.jeepunpaved.com on the Internet and tell me if your client
> > blows up. Sure, neither of its nameservers can answer non-A queries intelligently,
> > but why do they *need* to? (Amusingly, Rob Austein's insistence about serial-number
> > increment tends to become rather moot when there *isn't* an SOA record, at least
> > not any that anyone can successfully query...)
> 
> I find that looking up www.jeepunpaved.com is a tad
> unreliable. At least the first look up - but I presume this
> is something to do with reaching the right place in the
> hierarchy, rather than the record itself, as later lookups
> seem okay, and with such a low TTL the record itself can't
> be the problem.
> 
> Hmm - looks like something is odd with your use of the C&W
> DNS servers - seems that the domain is delegated to ns, but
> is on ns4. Might be worth just running through with doc or
> similar (Doesn't DJB do one).
> 

FWIW.

Doc-2.2.2: doc -v -p jeepunpaved.com.
Doc-2.2.2: Starting test of jeepunpaved.com.   parent is com.
Doc-2.2.2: Test date - Wed Jul 18 07:04:30 EDT 2001
Note: Skipping parent domain testing
Found 3 NS and 3 glue records for jeepunpaved.com. @a.gtld-servers.net.
(non-AUTH)
Using NSlist from parent domain server a.gtld-servers.net.
NS list summary for jeepunpaved.com. from parent (com.) servers
  == fxclpr02.is.chrysler.com. fxiod01.is.chrysler.com. ns4.cw.net.
soa @fxclpr02.is.chrysler.com. for jeepunpaved.com. serial: 200103199
soa @fxiod01.is.chrysler.com. for jeepunpaved.com. serial: 200103199
soa @ns4.cw.net. for jeepunpaved.com. serial: 200103199
SOA serial #'s agree for jeepunpaved.com.
Authoritative domain (jeepunpaved.com.) servers agree on NS for
jeepunpaved.com.ERROR: NS list from jeepunpaved.com. authoritative
servers does not
  === match NS list from parent (com.) servers
NS list summary for jeepunpaved.com. from authoritative servers
  == fxclpr02.is.chrysler.com. fxiod01.is.chrysler.com. ns.cw.net.
ERROR: ns4.cw.net. claims to be authoritative, but does not appear in
NS list from authoritative servers
Checking 0 potential addresses for hosts at jeepunpaved.com.
  ==
Summary:
   ERRORS found for jeepunpaved.com. (count: 2)
Done testing jeepunpaved.com.  Wed Jul 18 07:04:43 EDT 2001

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