On Friday 08 April 2011 00:55:19 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Why do boxes on my network return this? > > $ nslookup www.gentoo.org > Server: 127.0.0.1 > Address: 127.0.0.1#53 > > Non-authoritative answer: > www.gentoo.org canonical name = www-bytemark.gentoo.org. > Name: www-bytemark.gentoo.org > Address: 89.16.167.134
Short answer: it is correct, working as designed. Long answer: That answer came from a DNS cache, which by definition is not authoritative - it is merely a copy (which you trust to be legit) It does match the actual records on the real auth servers: =========== $ dig NS gentoo.org +trace [snip] gentoo.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.gentoo.org. gentoo.org. 86400 IN NS ns2.gentoo.org. ;; Received 96 bytes from 199.19.56.1#53(a0.org.afilias-nst.info) in 460 ms gentoo.org. 86400 IN NS ns1.gentoo.org. gentoo.org. 86400 IN NS ns2.gentoo.org. ;; Received 96 bytes from 194.116.84.30#53(ns2.gentoo.org) in 214 ms $ dig A www.gentoo.org @ns1.gentoo.org +short www-bytemark.gentoo.org. 89.16.167.134 $ dig A ns1.gentoo.org +short 208.92.234.78 ============ -- Alan McKinnon Systems Engineer^W Technician Infrastructure Services Internet Solutions +27 11 575 7585 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
