Delegation not working

[Mike Bernhardt]

Reformatting the dig request gives the following:

dig +trace @athena -x 10.0.2.252

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> +trace @athena -x 10.0.2.252
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       163824  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       163824  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.

;; Received 500 bytes from 148.165.30.30#53(148.165.30.30) in 0 ms

;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Since this server can't reach the root servers, this makes sense. But
apparently it isn't following delegation.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Buxton [mailto:cbuxton at menandmice.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:19 PM
To: Mike Bernhardt
Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: Re: Delegation not working

On May 7, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Mike Bernhardt wrote:
> dig -x +trace @athena 10.0.2.252
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;+trace.in-addr.arpa.           IN      PTR
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;10.0.2.252.                    IN      A

You've given dig the wrong arguments. You gave it two queries,  
indicated above, neither of which is what you wanted.

Try this:

dig @athena -x 10.0.2.252

Chris Buxton
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