Unable to resolve www.springerlink.com

[Hement Gopal]

Hi Stephane
I ran dig trace and got ff output

bash-2.05# dig +trace www.springerlink.com

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> +trace www.springerlink.com
;; global options:  printcmd
                       425057  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
                       425057  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 244 bytes from 146.141.15.210#53(146.141.15.210) in 25 ms

com.                    172800  IN      NS      M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 510 bytes from 192.203.230.10#53(E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 511 ms

springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      alpha.ntp.springer.de.
springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      ns.ebsco.com.
springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      ns.metapress.com.
springerlink.com.       172800  IN      NS      spm1.springer.de.
;; Received 174 bytes from 192.55.83.30#53(M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 754 ms

;; Received 38 bytes from 192.129.24.9#53(alpha.ntp.springer.de) in 508 ms

bash-2.05#

Rgds,
Hement



Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

>On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 11:57:31PM +0200,
> Sherona <sherona at cns.wits.ac.za> wrote 
> a message of 16 lines which said:
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>>Our DNS cannot resolve www.springerlink.com. 
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>dig +trace www.springerlink.com
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>to see what's going on.
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>>I can resolve if i set type=any
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>www.springerlink.com is an alias which may be the reason (the
>canonical name is in another domain which is legal but may break some
>buggy software).
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