Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 21:15:44 +0200 From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> To: Hassan Halta <hassan@cs.earlham.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS and nslookup problem Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010809210818.0297ee78@mail.Go2France.com> In-Reply-To: <20010808214918.R14553-100000@quark.cs.earlham.edu>
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>Here's a problem, say I am using nslookup to look for ibm.net, but when I
>do that, I will get ibm.net.cs.earlham.edu instead on ibm.net by itself,
>or non existence domain...etc.
# dig ibm.net any
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ibm.net any
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; ibm.net, type = ANY, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ibm.net. 12h31m51s IN NS NS4.US.PRSERV.net.
ibm.net. 12h31m51s IN NS NS3.US.PRSERV.net.
ibm.net. 12h31m51s IN NS NS1.US.PRSERV.net.
ibm.net. 3h56m45s IN SOA master.US.PRSERV.net.
dns.us.ibm.com. (
993748821 ; serial
2H ; refresh
1H ; retry
1W ; expiry
4H ) ; minimum
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
ibm.net. 12h31m51s IN NS NS4.US.PRSERV.net.
ibm.net. 12h31m51s IN NS NS3.US.PRSERV.net.
ibm.net. 12h31m51s IN NS NS1.US.PRSERV.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
NS4.US.PRSERV.net. 13h11m26s IN A 165.87.201.244
NS3.US.PRSERV.net. 13h11m26s IN A 165.87.201.243
NS1.US.PRSERV.net. 12h31m50s IN A 165.87.194.244
> At the beginning it seems to be a missing
>period problem, but I assure you it's not.
???
> A friend of mine fixed it
>temporarly if she adds nslookup -nosea , and everything goes fine, but if
>someone is using us as a nameserver, that will not help. I was wondering
>if there are some ways to solve or debug this problem.
use dig
It sure looks like your resolver is qualifying ibm.net with the default domain.
What does
nslookup ibm.net.
give?
Len
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