Local domain appended to 2 domains only

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> "Cricket Liu" <cricket at menandmice.com> wrote in message news:<9nr2ps$24c at pub3
> .rc.vix.com>...
> 
> > Could there be another configuration problem on your
> > name server?  Do you have a root hints file?
> 
> > What version of BIND is this?  Is it, in fact, some weird, patched version?
>   
> 
>    BND 4.9.7, default version on HP-UX 11.0 (if you can believe it).
> 
>    Today, the system running BIND was turned into the production
> mail server today. So we removed one record from the data
> file for the localdomain.com domain:
> 
> barney $ diff localdomain.com.hosts localdomain.com.hosts.20010907
> 4c4
> <                             200109132 ; Serial
> ---
> >                             200107180 ; Serial
> 10a11
> >               IN      MX      10 hassett.localdomain.com.
> 
>    Just for giggles, before scouring through the data files, I
> thought that I'd try an nslookup again. It works now.
> 
> barney $ nslookup www.aesdirect.gov
> Name Server:  barney.hassettair.com
> Address:  192.168.10.11
> 
> Trying DNS
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:    www.aesdirect.gov
> Address:  65.114.156.130
> 
>    This begs the question, what, in the MX record, broke resolution for
> that domain? I have been using this syntax on MX records for over 10 years.
> Should I chalk up this error to such an old version of BIND?
> 
>    Thanks for all the input, Cricket and Barry.
> 
> cjw
> 
	I suggest that you look at your log files.

	Mark
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