Subdoamins W2k

[Barry Finkel]

Holger Honert  <holger.honert at signal.de> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have a strange behaviour concerning subdomain delegation in a mixed 
>environment AIX
>and W2k in my intranet.
>
>My AIX Server runs BIDN v 8.3.1 (compiled sources from isc.org) and 
>hosts the top zone
>'a-ts.de'. In this zone is a delegation for the subdomain (xpu.a-ts.de) 
>to a W2k server
>running MS-BIND.
>
>If I try to lookup the contents of the subdomain 'xpu.a-ts.de' with 'ls 
>-d xpu.a-ts.de.'
>the error message is as follows:
>
>>ls -d xpu.a-ts.de.
>>
>[localhost]
>*** Domõne xpu.a-ts.de. kann nicht aufgelistet werden:Unspecified error
>
>>set d2
>>ls -d xpu.a-ts.de.
>>
>;; res_nmkquery(QUERY, xpu.a-ts.de., IN, AXFR)
>[localhost]
>*** Domõne xpu.a-ts.de. kann nicht aufgelistet werden:Unspecified error
>
>
>That shouldn't work, since your AIX server isn't authoritative for the
>subdomain.  You can only perform a zone transfer from an authoritative
>server.
>
>Vice versa if I make the server of the subdomain as my prim. NS and I 
>want to
>list the contents of the upper domain 'a-ts.de' it does not work either.
>Network connections do work properly and on both servers is recursion on.

Here is the output of doc 2.1.4 on your zone and its parent; it is
followed by a NS query for your zone.  Fix the errors listed in the
doc output. The NS query returned NXDOMAIN.  Have you delegated the
W2k/XP subdomain properly?

britaine% doc -x -v xpu.a-ts.de
Doc-2.1.4: doc -x -v xpu.a-ts.de
Doc-2.1.4: Starting test of xpu.a-ts.de.   parent is a-ts.de.
Doc-2.1.4: Test date - Mon Apr 15 09:54:54 CDT 2002
WARNING: No NS found for parent domain a-ts.de.
soa @auth03.ns.de.uu.net. for de. has serial: 2002041401
soa @dns.denic.de. for de. has serial: 2002041401
soa @dns.nic.xlink.net. for de. has serial: 2002041301
soa @dns2.denic.de. for de. has serial: 2002041401
soa @sss-at.denic.de. for de. has serial: 2002041301
soa @sss-nl.denic.de. for de. has serial: 2002041401
soa @sunic.sunet.se. for de. has serial: 2002041401
WARNING: Found 2 unique SOA serial #'s for de.
Found 0 NS and 0 glue records for xpu.a-ts.de. @auth03.ns.de.uu.net. (AUTH)
Found 0 NS and 0 glue records for xpu.a-ts.de. @dns.denic.de. (AUTH)
Found 0 NS and 0 glue records for xpu.a-ts.de. @dns.nic.xlink.net. (AUTH)
Found 0 NS and 0 glue records for xpu.a-ts.de. @dns2.denic.de. (AUTH)
Found 0 NS and 0 glue records for xpu.a-ts.de. @sss-at.denic.de. (AUTH)
Found 0 NS and 0 glue records for xpu.a-ts.de. @sss-nl.denic.de. (AUTH)
Found 0 NS and 0 glue records for xpu.a-ts.de. @sunic.sunet.se. (AUTH)
DNServers for de.
   === 7 were also authoritatve for xpu.a-ts.de.
   === 0 were non-authoritative for xpu.a-ts.de.
Servers for de. that are also authoritative for xpu.a-ts.de.
   === agree on NS records for xpu.a-ts.de.
WARNING: auth03.ns.de.uu.net. claims authoritative for xpu.a-ts.de.
   == but no NS record at parent zone
WARNING: dns.denic.de. claims authoritative for xpu.a-ts.de.
   == but no NS record at parent zone
WARNING: dns.nic.xlink.net. claims authoritative for xpu.a-ts.de.
   == but no NS record at parent zone
WARNING: dns2.denic.de. claims authoritative for xpu.a-ts.de.
   == but no NS record at parent zone
WARNING: sss-at.denic.de. claims authoritative for xpu.a-ts.de.
   == but no NS record at parent zone
WARNING: sss-nl.denic.de. claims authoritative for xpu.a-ts.de.
   == but no NS record at parent zone
WARNING: sunic.sunet.se. claims authoritative for xpu.a-ts.de.
   == but no NS record at parent zone
NS list summary for xpu.a-ts.de. from parent (de.) servers
  == 
SYSerr: No servers for xpu.a-ts.de. returned SOAs ...
Summary:
   YIKES: doc aborted while testing xpu.a-ts.de.  parent de.
   WARNINGS issued for xpu.a-ts.de. (count: 8)
   Incomplete test for xpu.a-ts.de. (1)
Done testing xpu.a-ts.de.  Mon Apr 15 09:54:59 CDT 2002

britaine%
===============
britaine% dig xpu.a-ts.de ns

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> xpu.a-ts.de ns 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      xpu.a-ts.de, type = NS, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
de.                     53m31s IN SOA   dns.denic.de. ops.denic.de. (
                                        2002041401      ; serial
                                        3H              ; refresh
                                        2H              ; retry
                                        5w6d16h         ; expiry
                                        1H )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 4 msec
;; FROM: britaine.ctd.anl.gov to SERVER: default -- 146.139.254.5
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 15 10:04:46 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 29  rcvd: 79

britaine% 
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Barry S. Finkel
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