named appears to be "broken" -- (was: really whacky issues)

[Edvard Tuinder]

According to Mark:
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> I have, as I said before, enabled recursion via the options in 
> named.conf
> 
> when I run nslookup, it responds with the authoritative nameservers for 
> mydomain.name, regardless of the domain name i request.  the "Name" 
> output is domain.name.requested.mydomain.name -- indicating to me that 
> mydomain.name is being appended to requests.
> 
> Whenever i run whois the output is "whois: com.whois-servers.net: No 
> address associated with hostname".
> 
> So, just for the hell of it, I tried setting my hostname to null ("" -- 
> empty quotes), even though it could possibly foul up other services.  
> The results were the same.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

nslookup is the wrong tool to diagnose DNS. It does not use the right library
calls to be reliable.

In your case, the appending of your local domain name, comes from the fact
that nslookup uses your /etc/resolv.conf search path. And apparantely your
zone has a wildcard which causes any query with nslookup to match.

Try using dig for testing, or add a final . to your query (so query for
domain.com. instead of domain.com).

It'll probably show you that dns resolution itself works correctly.
If it doesn't, post the real configuration and the addresses of the
nameservers so we can test it ourselves. Do not edit the configuration,
only omit any auth-keys for rndc and such.


-Ed