Re: [UNsolved] was: what does dig +trace do?

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Schmitt
In my case, dig is asking for the nameservers of the root-zone and is getting the answer: . IN NS root1 . IN NS root2 etc Next dig is asking for the A-record of root1. And here is the differrence: If I do dig root1 dig is asking exactly this, it is asking for the

Re: [UNsolved] was: what does dig +trace do?

2011-09-02 Thread Tom Schmitt
dig +trace calls getaddrinfo() and that needs to be able to resolve the hostname (without dots at the end). getaddrinfo() is called so that we don't have to have a full blown iterative resolver in dig. I see. So no way to solve this one in dig itself. The Internet moved from being a

Re: Re: about the additional section

2011-09-02 Thread 刘明星:)
Really? Maybe it is not. The recursor receives a response with additional section from a zone and if it finds that the nameservers in the authority section of the response belong to the zone, it will use the glue records in the additonal section, elsewise, it will laungh a new query about

question about forward

2011-09-02 Thread JudahXIII
hi everyone. i've had a question for a long time. when i set my dns server (via bind) as forward only server, i set two destination dns addresses. now, when the first destination dns server is down, will my server still send requests to it? when does my server send request to the second one? thank

Re: question about forward

2011-09-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.09.11 14:52, JudahXIII wrote: when i set my dns server (via bind) as forward only server, i set two destination dns addresses. do you run bind server as forward only? why not use those forwarders directly? now, when the first destination dns server is down, will my server still send

Re: about the additional section

2011-09-02 Thread Florian Weimer
* 风河: i just want to make sure about it, and will the client resolver use the additional records directly? It is somewhat difficult to make correct use of the additional section. For example, Exim tried to do it, but they had to remove the code because it caused spurious mail delivery

Re: Fwd: Re: slow non-cached quries

2011-09-02 Thread TMK
On Sep 2, 2011 9:48 AM, TMK eng...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Leonard Mills l...@yahoo.com Date: Aug 31, 2011 8:15 PM Subject: Re: slow non-cached quries To: TMK eng...@gmail.com ;; Received 738 bytes from 192.112.36.4#53(G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 3133 ms

Re: [UNsolved] was: what does dig +trace do?

2011-09-02 Thread SM
Hi Tom, At 23:42 01-09-2011, Tom Schmitt wrote: But seriously: I don't see in the RFC that it is forbidden to have a hostname directly in the root-zone (without a internal dot). From RFC 921: The names are being changed from simple names, or globally unique strings, to structured names,

Re: Fwd: Re: slow non-cached quries

2011-09-02 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
From: Leonard Mills l...@yahoo.com Date: Aug 31, 2011 8:15 PM Subject: Re: slow non-cached quries To: TMK eng...@gmail.com ;; Received 738 bytes from 192.112.36.4#53(G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 3133 ms That pretty much is your delay. Look to your intermediate network segments, especially any smart

Re: what does dig +trace do?

2011-09-02 Thread Cathy Almond
On 31/08/11 16:36, Tom Schmitt wrote: What strikes me as odd is that the first query does return 4 (internal) root servers, but no glue records ? I have no idea why this is this way. Because +trace only displays the answer section of the responses by default. Try dig +trace +additional.

Re: forward question

2011-09-02 Thread CT
On 09/01/2011 11:53 PM, Vbvbrj wrote: On 01.09.2011 19:01, CT wrote: so did you end up setting up a slave zone (for the internal AD DNS) on your public DNS server ? No, for now I just left the AD DNS (Microsoft DNS) instead of BIND. I didn't have time to move all DNS servers to BIND and make