rcode servfail/adns

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At 23:08 16-2-2006, Mark Andrews wrote:

> > At 21:53 16-2-2006, Mark Andrews wrote:
> >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm using adns and BIND to do mass reverse lookups for me, but I seem
> > > > to have run into a problem which I couldn't fix for the past few
> > > > days. For some reason, my PTR lookups (adns type adns_r_ptr_raw) are
> > > > getting nothing but "unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving
> > > > 'x.x.x.x.in-addr.arpa/PTR/IN': 193.0.0.193#53" results. AFAIK my BIND
> > > > configuration ( http://greyhat.nl/named.conf ) is fine, but seeing
> > > > all these remote errors coming from ns.ripe.net make me wonder about
> > > > the sanity of my setup. I realise that this is a rather vague problem
> > > > description, but I haven't come across any obvious hints yet. If you
> > > > need more information, I'll be more than happy to provide that. Right
> > > > now I'm just looking for any insights at 
> all, since I'm completely stuck!
> > > >
> > > > Kind regards,
> > > > Ro
> > >
> > >         The only hard piece of evidence and you go and obscure the
> > >         details.
> > >
> > >         Mark
> > >--
> > >Mark Andrews, ISC
> > >1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> > >PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews at isc.org
> >
> > Oh, you wanted me to say that 90% of the IPs I'm
> > trying to resolve actually are resolvable on
> > other hosts, but I get this error on my box? I
> > "obscured" that IP (I didn't obscure anything, I
> > just used x.x.x.x as a "wildcard" for all the
> > queries that are failing), because I fail to see
> > the relevance of quoting a single IP out of
> > thousands that is resolvable on your host, but
> > fails to resolve on mine.  These IPs are from all
> > over the world, on practically every ISP
> > imaginable. Now for all of you who think I'm
> > wrong in assuming this, here is one of the IPs in
> > question: 84.28.47.253. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Roël
>
>         Well as you can see 28.84.IN-ADDR.ARPA is delegated to
>         NS.RIPE.NET however it isn't serving it.  The other
>         nameservers for 28.84.IN-ADDR.ARPA are serving it.
>
>         Either NS.RIPE.NET needs to be fixed, the zone contents
>         needs to be fixed or the delegation needs to be fixed.
>
>         I suggest you contact the administators of 28.84.IN-ADDR.ARPA
>         and get them to address the problem.
>
>         Mark

Are you seriously suggesting to contact RIPE, to 
tell them around 4000 of their IPs don't resolve, 
just on my host, but they work fine on another? I 
think this is not a problem at RIPE, but rather 
at my site, which is why I'm requesting help 
here. I'm not sure if you fully understand the 
problem, but I'm still looking for a solution to my situation.