On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Jeff Buehler wrote: > OK, just to add to my confusion, here is part of what is going on - this > server also provides the authoritative DNS for trikorausa.com (but not > local DNS queries or caching!). It does not provide any other services > for trikorausa.com (no email etc.) - the records point to an outside > address. If I do a "dig @an-external-dns-server trikorausa.com +trace" > I still get a "dig: Too many lookups" error. Does that make sense - is > it looping? It seems like it should work - the external primary DNS > knows the server doing the dig provides the authoritative DNS, shouldn't > it simply trace back to it and stop? Essentially the server is simply > doing a trace from an external DNS server back to itself. If I do a dig > using ANY dns server from the server that provides the authoritative DNS > for this domain I get the same result. As Davide reported if I do a dig > to trikorausa.com from an outside line the trace is fine and does not fail. > > Also I don't know what the story is with the other domains - I only have > client reports at this point about unexpected failures. Also, three > weeks ago I was able to send email to trikorausa.com without the > "nxdomain" error.
>From here it works just fine: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dig trikorausa.com mx +trace ; <<>> DiG 9.4.2 <<>> trikorausa.com mx +trace ;; global options: printcmd .. 324708 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. .. 324708 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 428 bytes from 10.107.17.218#53(10.107.17.218) in 0 ms com. 172800 IN NS D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. com. 172800 IN NS G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET. ;; Received 492 bytes from 202.12.27.33#53(M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 127 ms trikorausa.com. 172800 IN NS dns1.buehlertech.net. trikorausa.com. 172800 IN NS dns2.buehlertech.net. ;; Received 117 bytes from 192.43.172.30#53(I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 197 ms trikorausa.com. 43200 IN MX 10 mail.trikorausa.com. trikorausa.com. 43200 IN NS dns1.buehlertech.net. trikorausa.com. 43200 IN NS dns2.buehlertech.net. ;; Received 154 bytes from 69.12.155.168#53(dns2.buehlertech.net) in 35 ms - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
