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

2011-09-07 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 9/6/2011 8:40 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message4e66b5b5.30...@chrysler.com, Kevin Darcy writes: On 9/1/2011 7:57 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message4e5fb1ab.4040...@data.pl, Torinthiel writes: On 09/01/11 17:56, Tom Schmitt wrote: =20 I found the cause of my problem (and a solution): =20

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

2011-09-06 Thread Kevin Darcy
On 9/1/2011 7:57 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message4e5fb1ab.4040...@data.pl, Torinthiel writes: On 09/01/11 17:56, Tom Schmitt wrote: =20 I found the cause of my problem (and a solution): =20 dig +trace actually has another behaviour than doing the trace manually= step by step with dig.

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

2011-09-06 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4e66b5b5.30...@chrysler.com, Kevin Darcy writes: On 9/1/2011 7:57 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message4e5fb1ab.4040...@data.pl, Torinthiel writes: On 09/01/11 17:56, Tom Schmitt wrote: =20 I found the cause of my problem (and a solution): =20 dig +trace actually has another

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

2011-09-01 Thread Tom Schmitt
I found the cause of my problem (and a solution): dig +trace actually has another behaviour than doing the trace manually step by step with dig. For a trace, dig is asking for the NS-records, then for the IP-address of the nameserver found and then go on asking this nameserver. Till the