Local domain appended to 2 domains only

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9nr1ps$20v at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Christohper J. Wargaski <cjw at rmsbus.com> wrote:
>Name Server:  barney.localdomain.com
>Address:  192.168.10.11
>
>Trying DNS
>;; res_mkquery(0, www.aesdirect.gov, 1, 1)
>timeout
>timeout
>timeout
>------------
>Got answer:
>    HEADER:
>        opcode = QUERY, id = 2774, rcode = SERVFAIL
>        header flags:  response, want recursion, recursion avail.
>        questions = 1,  answers = 0,  authority records = 0, 
>additional = 0
>
>    QUESTIONS:
>        www.aesdirect.gov, type = A, class = IN
>
> ===========
>
>   And then I have www.aesdirect.gov.localdomain.com returned.
>
>> If so, you need to diagnose why the first lookup failed.  Appending the 
>> local domain is normal when that happens
>
>   Hmmm, an 'nslookup www.aesdirect.gov' querying each of its
>namservers directly works just fine. It seems that returning the
>nameservers of aesdirect.gov from the root nameservers is the
>non-functional part. I have IP connectivity to all root name servers
>and it does not appear that aesdirect.gov's delegation is wrong or out
>of date.

Did you do those directed nslookups from your workstation or from the
nameserver (barney)?  It appears that barney is having trouble
communicating with aesdirect.gov's nameservers.

As a next step in troubleshooting, you could turn on named tracing on
barney, and see what's happening when it tries to process these queries.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Woburn, MA
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