Can't resolve www.servergraph.org

John Wobus jw354 at cornell.edu
Thu Sep 13 20:25:19 UTC 2007


Hello,

Our caching DNS (bind9) servers, e.g. bigred.cit.cornell.edu, will not 
resolve www.servergraph.org.  Some other open dns servers (which I 
shall not name) do not have this problem.  You will have my thanks if 
you can explain what is preventing our bind9 from caching the name.  
I've appended some dig commands, below.

John Wobus
Cornell U

==========Our nameserver:
 > ./named -v
BIND 9.3.3rc2





==========Querying the nameserver:


$ dig www.servergraph.org

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> www.servergraph.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 16816
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.servergraph.org.           IN      A

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 128.253.180.2#53(128.253.180.2)
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 13 16:12:52 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 37



==========Misc dig commands to inspect the delegation:


$ dig +trace www.servergraph.org

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> +trace www.servergraph.org
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       332266  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332266  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 436 bytes from 128.253.180.2#53(128.253.180.2) in 19 ms

org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD4.ULTRADNS.org.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD5.ULTRADNS.INFO.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD6.ULTRADNS.CO.UK.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.
org.                    172800  IN      NS      TLD3.ULTRADNS.org.
;; Received 351 bytes from 128.8.10.90#53(D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 23 ms

servergraph.org.        86400   IN      NS      
dns02.rocketsoftware.com.
servergraph.org.        86400   IN      NS      
dns01.rocketsoftware.com.
;; Received 95 bytes from 192.100.59.11#53(TLD5.ULTRADNS.INFO) in 17 ms

dig: couldn't get address for 'dns02.rocketsoftware.com': not found




$ dig dns02.rocketsoftware.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> dns02.rocketsoftware.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 32499
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dns02.rocketsoftware.com.      IN      A

;; Query time: 10 msec
;; SERVER: 128.253.180.2#53(128.253.180.2)
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 13 16:13:29 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 42





$ dig +trace dns02.rocketsoftware.com

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> +trace dns02.rocketsoftware.com
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       332232  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       332232  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 436 bytes from 128.253.180.2#53(128.253.180.2) in 17 ms

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.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      m.gtld-servers.net.
;; Received 502 bytes from 128.63.2.53#53(H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 75 ms

dns02.rocketsoftware.com. 172800 IN     A       137.134.240.10
rocketsoftware.com.     172800  IN      NS      
dns01.rocketsoftware.com.
rocketsoftware.com.     172800  IN      NS      
dns02.rocketsoftware.com.
;; Received 124 bytes from 192.26.92.30#53(c.gtld-servers.net) in 22 ms





$ dig dns02.rocketsoftware.com @137.134.240.10

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> dns02.rocketsoftware.com @137.134.240.10
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48735
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dns02.rocketsoftware.com.      IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dns02.rocketsoftware.com. 86400 IN      CNAME   
rsdns02.rocketsoftware.com.
rsdns02.rocketsoftware.com. 86400 IN    A       137.134.240.10

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
rocketsoftware.com.     86400   IN      NS      
rsdns01.rocketsoftware.com.
rocketsoftware.com.     86400   IN      NS      
rsdns02.rocketsoftware.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
rsdns01.rocketsoftware.com. 86400 IN    A       137.134.224.10
rsdns02.rocketsoftware.com. 86400 IN    A       137.134.240.10

;; Query time: 38 msec
;; SERVER: 137.134.240.10#53(137.134.240.10)
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 13 16:14:30 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 148



==========dig command to see if the authoritative data is there for the 
original name:

$ dig +norecurse www.servergraph.org @137.134.240.10

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> +norecurse www.servergraph.org @137.134.240.10
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40697
;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.servergraph.org.           IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.servergraph.org.    300     IN      A       137.134.216.11

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
servergraph.org.        300     IN      NS      
rsdns01.rocketsoftware.com.
servergraph.org.        300     IN      NS      
rsdns02.rocketsoftware.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
rsdns01.rocketsoftware.com. 86400 IN    A       137.134.224.10
rsdns02.rocketsoftware.com. 86400 IN    A       137.134.240.10

;; Query time: 38 msec
;; SERVER: 137.134.240.10#53(137.134.240.10)
;; WHEN: Thu Sep 13 16:19:58 2007
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 147



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