Hi Daniel. On 27/07/2014 1:52 PM, Daniel Jitnah wrote: > Hi All, > > when I do > > dig somedomain.org
I note that while I do get an answer, ;; ANSWER SECTION: somedomain.org. 3600 IN A 50.87.144.86 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: somedomain.org. 4073 IN NS ns1019.hostgator.com. somedomain.org. 4073 IN NS ns1020.hostgator.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns1019.hostgator.com. 4073 IN A 50.87.144.86 ns1020.hostgator.com. 4073 IN A 192.232.216.125 what I don't get is any SOA record. ; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1 <<>> somedomain.org soa ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 18297 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;somedomain.org. IN SOA ;; Query time: 444 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254) ;; WHEN: Sun Jul 27 16:54:06 2014 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 32 > > If I do > > dig greenwareit.com.au > > it works fine. Works fine here too, but DOES have an SOA record. ; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.23.rc1.el6_5.1 <<>> greenwareit.com.au soa ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53138 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;greenwareit.com.au. IN SOA ;; ANSWER SECTION: greenwareit.com.au. 3600 IN SOA ns0.xname.org. danyj028.gmail.com. 2014072302 3600 3600 604800 10800 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: greenwareit.com.au. 3577 IN NS ns1.xname.org. greenwareit.com.au. 3577 IN NS ns2.xname.org. greenwareit.com.au. 3577 IN NS ns0.xname.org. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns0.xname.org. 249 IN A 195.234.42.1 ;; Query time: 1 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.1.254#53(192.168.1.254) ;; WHEN: Sun Jul 27 16:56:00 2014 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 169 With no SOA (Start Of Authority) record, it could simply be that the resolving process has no way of tracking the name server that is authoritative for the name lookup. Regards, Morrie. _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
