AXFR does not look at Domain name

[Barry Margolin]

In article <co481k$2t7s$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Swapna Prasad <swapna56782004 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I do a AXFR zone Transfer to get the list of hosts in my domain. The way I do 
> is I connect to the DNS Server in my domain on port 53 using TCP. Then send a 
> DNS query as specified by RFC1034(header,question,response...etc). the 
> question section takes domain name, class, type etc. I get the 
> response...everything works fine. 
> 
>       But I found that it does not look at the Domain name field at all. What 
>       ever the value in the domain name field it does the zone transfer of 
>       the zone records present in the DNS server to which it is I have 
>       connected. Is this the way it has to work or am I doing something 
>       wrong.

This makes little sense.  Most nameservers host more than one zone (e.g. 
both forward and reverse zones, and also frequently a zone for 
127.in-addr.arpa).  It has to look at the name in the query section to 
determine which one of these zones to return.

What happens if you use "dig" rather than your own tool?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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