Hi all

We observe a strange bind 8.3 behaviour with the domain zhaw.ch

According to SWITCH:
Name servers:
ns1.zhwin.ch    [160.85.104.60]
ns2.zhwin.ch    [160.85.104.61]

$ host -t ns zhaw.ch
zhaw.ch name server ns1.zhaw.ch.
zhaw.ch name server ns2.zhaw.ch.

(which have the same IP as the zhwin server above)

Well, what happens now, is that right after restarting bind, it does not know 
the domain. So the first query goes to switch and gets the zhwin DNS Servers.
With the IP-Addresses of the zhwin server, bind does resolve hosts within the 
zhaw domain and learns about the NS published in that zone.

After a while, the entries in the zone expire, but strangely bind still nows 
the names of the zhaw.ch dns but not their IP-Addresse.

So bind 8.3 does query switch for the ip addresse of ns1.zhaw.ch and 
ns2.zhaw.ch. Of course switch does not know.
=> bind complains that no nameservers are resolvable for that domain. Users 
cannot get though to the website and mailserver of zhaw.

This does not seam to happen with bind 9 DNS.

Is this a bug (or feature) in bind 8.3 or is this just a misconfiguration in 
the zhaw zonefile?
I already contacted them and asked them to either change the NS registered @ 
switch or to put the same DNS as @ switch into the zonefile to fix that 
problem.

Benoit Panizzon
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