Delegation not working

[Chris Buxton]

On May 7, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Mike Bernhardt wrote:
> And dig gives me this:
> dig +norec @athena -x 10.0.2.252
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;252.2.0.10.in-addr.arpa.       IN      PTR
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> 0.10.in-addr.arpa.      14400   IN      NS      mrep-02.adm.bart.gov.
> 0.10.in-addr.arpa.      14400   IN      NS      dhcp-01.adm.bart.gov.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> dhcp-01.adm.bart.gov.   86400   IN      A       148.165.126.87
> mrep-02.adm.bart.gov.   86400   IN      A       10.2.242.222

That looks perfect.

> Without +norec, it times out.


OK, now we're getting somewhere. Why would the server "athena" have  
trouble querying those two servers? Try this from "athena" itself:

dig +norec -x 10.0.2.252 @148.165.126.87
dig +norec -x 10.0.2.252 @10.2.242.222

Chris Buxton
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