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On 22/08/2013 00:34, Doug Hardie wrote:
> There appears to be a problem with dig and the +trace option in 9.2.  I believe its also in 9.1.  The command:
>
> dig freebsd.org +trace
>
> Only yields a dumb response.  No useful information is provided.  Running the same command on FreeBSD 7.2 yields a complete trace with lots of useful information.
> _______________________________________________
>

Works for me on 9.0 and 9.1 (and 8.2, 7.1, 7.0)

Is there something wrong with your local bind configuration?

Regards, Frank.