Problem when resolving - works only once or twice

[Barry Margolin]

In article <gcqsc5$2oha$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Thomas L." <deather.dede at gmail.nospam.com> wrote:

> Hello guys,
> 
>   I'm having a strange issue with BIND-9.3.5-P2 on a
> Solaris 10 6/06 box. Instead of a long explanation, let me
> show you the problem:
> 
> ryna>host cath
> cath.hinyx.info has address 192.168.0.2
> Host cath.hinyx.info not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> Host cath.hinyx.info not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

The "host <hostname>" command performs three lookups: A record, AAAA 
record, and MX record.

So it looks like your server returns a response when looking up the A 
record, but an NXDOMAIN error when looking up the AAAA or MX records.  
This is incorrect behavior: NXDOMAIN means the name doesn't exist at 
all, not that it doesn't have a record of the requested type.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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