what does dig +trace do?
Marc Lampo
marc.lampo at eurid.eu
Tue Aug 30 12:25:59 UTC 2011
Hello,
"+trace" makes dig behave like it were a caching name server with an empty
cache, so to speak.
What strikes me as odd is that the first query does return 4 (internal) root
servers, but no glue records ?
Given those root name servers, do you have A-records for root[1234] in your
root zone ?
Kind regards,
Marc Lampo
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Schmitt [mailto:TomSchmitt at gmx.de]
Sent: 30 August 2011 01:57 PM
To: bind-users
Subject: what does dig +trace do?
Hi,
I have a question: What does dig +trace exactly do?
The reason for my question is:
I have a internal-only DNS in our company with my own root-zone. And normaly
all things are fine. But when there is an issue I would like to analyze with
dig +trace, the command fails.
If I do dig +trace example.com
I get something like this:
; <<>> DiG 9.8.0-P4 <<>> +trace example.com
;; global options: +cmd
. 10800 IN NS root1.
. 10800 IN NS root2.
. 10800 IN NS root3.
. 10800 IN NS root4.
;; Received 159 bytes from 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) in 1 ms
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
I don't understand why there is a timeout. Next zone on the trace should be
the com. domain which is hosted on the same servers as the rootzone.
I don't see any DNS-problems at all, only the +trace-option is behaving
weird. Can anybode tell me why? What does this option what normal DNS
queries don't do?
Tom.
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