BIND 9 AAAA record problems

[wbwither at bobball.uchicago.edu]

JINMEI Tatuya wrote:

> It seems to me that the caching server has a strange (unusual) state
> about efori.com:
  [snip]
> So, it doesn't have a glue for dns1.efori.com.  I guess that's
> probably the reason why you cannot get a response to a query for AAAA
> RR of efori.com.  The situation is so called the missing-glue status.
> In this case, the caching server should fallback to resolution from an
> upper zone (in the extreme case, from the root zone).  Then a gTLD
> server will give the caching server the missing glue again, and you'll
> get an appropriate response.

Ah, thank you for letting me know.  I figured that it must be something
like that since AAAA queries on other nameservers were behaving better.
> BTW: the configuration at the efori.com zone looks also odd.  While a
> gtld server provides two NSs for the zone:
[snip]

Thank you for the detailed info.  Hopefully everything is fixed now.

P.S. My apologies to the list members for the timestamps being off.  I'll
let the admin know about it.