From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 7 2: 3:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF68237BD43 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 02:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 71463 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Aug 2000 09:03:38 +0000 (GMT) To: vivek@cs.rice.edu Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: apparently FreeBSD-specific DNS failure From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 7 Aug 2000 03:11:43 -0500 (CDT)" References: <200008070811.DAA14294@cs.rice.edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:03:38 +0200 Message-ID: <71461.965639018@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm trying to track down a DNS lookup failure that seems to be > specific to FreeBSD. The site in question is www.wtime.net. Doing an > nslookup on it is fine, but gethostbyname and getaddrinfo both fail on > this - telnet fails, for example. > > I've tried with Solaris and Tru64, and both of them seem to have no > problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated. wtime.net has an inconsistent DNS configuration, and you should *expect* something to fail. From the .net name servers: wtime.net. 2D IN NS NS.JCITY.NET. wtime.net. 2D IN NS NS.wtime.net. NS.JCITY.NET. 2D IN A 210.217.192.1 NS.wtime.net. 2D IN A 211.116.92.5 Asking 210.217.192.1, we find only *one* name server: wtime.net. 1H IN NS ns.wtime.net. ns.wtime.net. 1H IN CNAME tdc_srv1.wtime.net. tdc_srv1.wtime.net. 1H IN A 211.116.92.5 and it is an alias - which is illegal. The name server at 211.116.92.5 responds the same way. Fix the DNS configuration - and if FreeBSD *still* fails we can investigate. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message