Query - No Response

[ic.nssip]

Hi Mark,

What is the reason for rejecting non-autoritative answers?
I have other servers that are resolving this query even the answer is 
non-autoritative.

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    www.cancer.ca
Address:  65.110.160.32

Thank you,
Julian


>
> In message <7097328FE40440F2BF8419D9B6967693 at internal.corp.ds>, "ic.nssip" 
> writ
> es:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have a strange issue on a DNS server that is not able to resolve =
>> www.cancer.ca [65.110.160.32].
>> If somebody has an idea about what is going wrong there, I will really =
>> appreciate any suggestions on how to make it work.
>>
>> Here is my dig and dig +trace test on that server:
>>
>> U:\>dig @ns.domain.net www.cancer.ca
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0a1 <<>> @ns.domain.net www.cancer.ca
>> ; (1 server found)
>> ;; global options: +cmd
>> ;; Got answer:
>> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 154
>> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>>
>> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
>> ;www.cancer.ca.                 IN      A
>>
>> ;; Query time: 171 msec
>> ;; SERVER: ns.domain.net#53(IP address)
>> ;; WHEN: Wed Apr 28 15:47:09 2010
>> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 31
>>
>>
>> U:\>dig @ns.domain.net www.cancer.ca +trace
>>
>> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0a1 <<>> @ns.domain.net www.cancer.ca +trace
>> ; (1 server found)
>> ;; global options: +cmd
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      l.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      e.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      m.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      j.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      c.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      a.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      k.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      i.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      b.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      f.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      d.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      g.root-servers.net.
>> .                       35864   IN      NS      h.root-servers.net.
>> ;; Received 272 bytes from ns.domain.net#53(IP address) in 15 ms
>>
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      sns-pb.isc.org.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      l.ca-servers.ca.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      k.ca-servers.ca.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      j.ca-servers.ca.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      b.ca-servers.ca.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      m.ca-servers.ca.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      c.ca-servers.ca.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      f.ca-servers.ca.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      a.ca-servers.ca.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      e.ca-servers.ca.
>> ca.                     172800  IN      NS      d.ca-servers.ca.
>> ;; Received 462 bytes from 128.8.10.90#53(d.root-servers.net) in 109 ms
>>
>> cancer.ca.              86400   IN      NS      ns2.uunet.ca.
>> cancer.ca.              86400   IN      NS      ns.uunet.ca.
>> ;; Received 104 bytes from 192.228.25.45#53(b.ca-servers.ca) in 281 ms
>>
>> www.cancer.ca.          86400   IN      A       65.110.160.32
>> ;; Received 47 bytes from 142.77.1.1#53(ns.uunet.ca) in 156 ms
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Julian
>
> The servers are not authoritative for the zone.  Named rejects
> non-authoritative answers.
>
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4055
> ;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;www.cancer.ca.                 IN      A
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> www.cancer.ca.          86400   IN      A       65.110.160.32
>
> ;; Query time: 792 msec
> ;; SERVER: 142.77.1.1#53(ns.uunet.ca)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Apr 29 10:34:28 2010
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 47
>
> Mark
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC
> 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
> PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742                 INTERNET: marka at isc.org
>