DIG Info Request

Linux Addict linuxaddict7 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 20:05:20 UTC 2015


There was nothing changed on the system since 2012. The behavior changed
all of sudden. I am just curious where dig got root servers like "
b.root-servers.new.".

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Leonard Mills <lenm at yahoo.com> wrote:

> >Let me take a step back. The original problem is "dig ."
> > would give SERVFAIL instead of NOERROR.
> >The "." is pointed to named.ca which looks normal.
>
> Without source code changes to your tools and/or replacement
> hints files "." invariably points to the root servers to be used by the
> (possibly local) DNS toolset.
>
> HTH,
> Len
>
>
>
>   On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 11:47 AM, Linux Addict <
> linuxaddict7 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Actually I tried +trace from BIND server itself and still get the same
> answer. I did "dig . +trace @localhost"
>
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> . +trace @localhost
> ;; global options: +cmd
> .                       346239  IN      NS      i.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      c.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      b.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      e.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      d.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      l.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      f.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      j.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      h.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      k.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      m.root-servers.new.
> .                       346239  IN      NS      g.root-servers.new.
> ;; Received 405 bytes from localhost#53(localhost) in 1 ms
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Lyle Giese <lyle at lcrcomputer.net> wrote:
>
>  172.27.254.11 is giving you that info with the .new name servers.  You
> need to ask whomever manages that server.
>
> Look at this line from your +trace output:
>
> Received 405 bytes from 172.27.254.11#53(172.27.254.11) in 1 ms
>
> Lyle
>
>
> On 2/3/2015 1:13 PM, Linux Addict wrote:
>
>  Additional info - general: warning: checkhints: unable to find root NS
> 'b.root-servers.new' in hints
>
>  ​I cant seem to find where the ".new" coming from...​
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Linux Addict <linuxaddict7 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  The named.ca seems good.
>
>  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> .                       518400  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://c.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://i.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://f.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://b.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://l.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://d.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://j.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://k.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://e.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://a.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://m.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://g.root-servers.net/>.
> .                       518400  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
> <http://h.root-servers.net/>.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 2:02 PM, Lyle Giese <lyle at lcrcomputer.net> wrote:
>
>  If I remember right, DIG does not know the root servers and asks the
> local host to retrieve that information and a server at 172.27.254.11(which
> is RFC 1918 address space) gave you that answer.
>
> Is your machine/shop setup with private root servers?
>
> Lyle
>
>
> On 2/3/2015 12:50 PM, Linux Addict wrote:
>
>   I do dig . +trace and the results seem show .new servers. This is
> causing SERVFAIL for root query. Any ideas?
>
>   dig . +trace
>
>  ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> . +trace
> ;; global options: +cmd
> .                       348510  IN      NS      b.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      h.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      l.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      f.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      m.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      k.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      i.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      e.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      g.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      j.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      c.root-servers.new.
> .                       348510  IN      NS      d.root-servers.new.
> ;; Received 405 bytes from 172.27.254.11#53(172.27.254.11) in 1 ms
>
>  ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
>
>
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