From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 9 12:18:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cs.earlham.edu (cs.earlham.edu [159.28.230.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A98E337B401 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 12:18:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hassan@cs.earlham.edu) Received: from localhost (hassan@localhost) by cs.earlham.edu (8.11.3/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f79JIH744528; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:18:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hassan@cs.earlham.edu) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:18:17 -0500 (EST) From: Hassan Halta To: Len Conrad Cc: Subject: Re: DNS and nslookup problem In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20010809210818.0297ee78@mail.Go2France.com> Message-ID: <20010809141652.Y44492-100000@quark.cs.earlham.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's the output of both nslookup and dig nslookup : Default Server: cs.earlham.edu Address: 159.28.230.3 > ibm.net Server: cs.earlham.edu Address: 159.28.230.3 Name: ibm.net.cs.earlham.edu dig : ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ibm.net ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; ibm.net, type = A, class = IN ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: ibm.net. 34m11s IN SOA master.us.prserv.net. dns.us.ibm.com. ( 993748821 ; serial 2H ; refresh 1H ; retry 1W ; expiry 4H ) ; minimum ;; Total query time: 1 msec ;; FROM: quark.cs.earlham.edu to SERVER: default -- 159.28.230.3 ;; WHEN: Thu Aug 9 14:17:51 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 25 rcvd: 92 I hope that will help to debug the problem Thanks a lot, Hassan On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Len Conrad wrote: > Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 21:15:44 +0200 > From: Len Conrad > To: Hassan Halta > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: DNS and nslookup problem > > > >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 > > > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training > http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K > http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message