dig +trace failure

[Chris Thompson]

On Sep 3 2009, Mark Andrews wrote:

>In message <200909030037.RAA27429 at nasdaq.hpl.hp.com>, Andris Kalnozols writes:
>
>> My 9.6.1-P1 dig programs (HP-UX and Linux) rather consistently fail
>> when trying to trace the delegation of 231.84.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA.
>> Out of curiousity, are others from different places on the Internet
>> able to duplicate the failure?
>
>It's fixed in the next release.  You should be able to verify this
>using the v9_6 from the BIND Forum CVS repository.

I have the fix Mark refers to applied (the bug strikes during fallback
to TCP) and get:

$ dig +trace 231.84.192.in-addr.arpa

; <<>> DiG 9.6.1-P1 <<>> +trace 231.84.192.in-addr.arpa
;; global options: +cmd
.                       35116   IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       35116   IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 272 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) in 0 ms

192.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      Y.ARIN.NET.
192.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      HENNA.ARIN.NET.
192.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      BASIL.ARIN.NET.
192.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      DILL.ARIN.NET.
192.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      CHIA.ARIN.NET.
192.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      Z.ARIN.NET.
192.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      X.ARIN.NET.
192.in-addr.arpa.       86400   IN      NS      INDIGO.ARIN.NET.
;; Received 196 bytes from 2001:500:2f::f#53(F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 264 ms

231.84.192.in-addr.arpa. 86400  IN      NS      mail.boston.accrue.com.
231.84.192.in-addr.arpa. 86400  IN      NS      ns1.accrue.com.
;; Received 95 bytes from 2001:500:31::63#53(X.ARIN.NET) in 166 ms

;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

No joy if you actually wanted a result, of course. Both nameservers
for the zone are u/s.

-- 
Chris Thompson
Email: cet1 at cam.ac.uk