bind 9.7.2-P3 does not resolve www.microsoft.com

[Lyle Giese]

Michael Sinatra wrote:
> On 12/28/10 06:07, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
>> It's working fine for me from RHEL5 Linux DNS servers and from Windows
>> DNS servers.
>
> It's not clear from this thread whether 'dig any microsoft.com
> @ns[12345].msft.net' works for anyone. I cannot get it to work from
> any of the msft.net servers on clients on the east and west coasts of
> the US, with different paths. If anyone can get this to work, *from*
> one of the msft.net servers, that's worth noting.
>
> I can effectively prime a cache by querying for microsoft.com NS, SOA,
> TXT, A, etc., and then querying my cache for ANY. The 'ANY' response I
> get back from cache is 639 bytes. A TXT query alone returns a response
> of 494 bytes, including authority.
>
> This looks broken on Microsoft's part.
>
> michael
>

>From the Chicago area, I get 'Truncated, retrying in TCP mode' and then
a connection timeout when doing:

dig any microsoft.com @ns[12345].msft.net

This however works:

dig any www.microsoft.com @ns[12345].msft.net

But it returns a cname entry to toggle.www.ms.adadns.net

A traceroute shows our traffic hitting Level3's backbone in Chicago.

Lyle Giese
LCR Computer Services, Inc.