Re: Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 17:20 +0100, Phil Mayers wrote: > On 25/06/13 16:53, John Horne wrote: > > > servers. However, there is a whole load of muttering that Microsoft and > > AD won't like that; it's all integrated with each other; running the DNS > > zone on Linux servers will be a problem with t

Re: Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 25.06.13 15:32, John Horne wrote: If, however, you run a general query for the NS records: dig 163.141.in-addr.arpa ns then you will get an ANSWER section which lists several of our 'ils' servers: == ;; ANSWER SECTION: 163.141.in-addr.arpa. 3600 IN NSils022.uopnet.ply

Re: Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jun 25, 2013, at 7:32 AM, John Horne wrote: > Hello, > > I am having a bit of trouble understanding what happens when, in this > instance, a DNS reverse lookup occurs. Our site has the class-C > 141.163.0.0 address range. If I perform reverse lookups from inside or > outside our site, then th

Re: Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 17:07 +0100, Steven Carr wrote: > On 25 June 2013 16:53, John Horne wrote: > > So what I now do not understand is why (at home) I can do several > > reverse lookups for different IP addresses, and they all give me an > > answer. Likewise if I do something like: > > > >dig

Re: Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread Phil Mayers
On 25/06/13 16:53, John Horne wrote: servers. However, there is a whole load of muttering that Microsoft and AD won't like that; it's all integrated with each other; running the DNS zone on Linux servers will be a problem with the MS servers etc etc. I'm sure you know this, but just in case -

Re: Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread Steven Carr
On 25 June 2013 16:53, John Horne wrote: > So what I now do not understand is why (at home) I can do several > reverse lookups for different IP addresses, and they all give me an > answer. Likewise if I do something like: > >dig -x 141.163.99.16 @8.8.8.8 > > I get a non-authoritative answer. I

Re: Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread John Horne
On Tue, 2013-06-25 at 10:46 -0400, Barry Margolin wrote: > > In addition, the authoritative answer may contain an Authority section. > These nameservers take precedence over the NS records from the > delegation -- the assumption is that the authoritative server knows its > domain's nameservers m

Re: Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , John Horne wrote: > So I think my question is what is the resolver doing? Does it use cached > NS records seen in the AUTHORITY section, or does it use NS records seen > in an ANSWER section? Or is it working its way down until it receives an > authoritative answer ('aa' flag set),

Answers from cache or authority section?

2013-06-25 Thread John Horne
Hello, I am having a bit of trouble understanding what happens when, in this instance, a DNS reverse lookup occurs. Our site has the class-C 141.163.0.0 address range. If I perform reverse lookups from inside or outside our site, then they seem to work fine. However, we are currently investigating