In message <4b9fad0c.1090...@um.edu.mt>, Gilbert Cassar writes: > Hi, > > We have a recurring problem with recursive domain resolution using a > bind 9.6 caching server. An example of such a zone is ecb.eu. The > problem seems due to a misconfiguration on their side where all the > (supposedly authorative) NS records listed in their zone file do not > answer requests to resolve ecb.eu hosts. This prevents us from resolving > anything under the domain after that the NS records are cached (the > first query goes through as the GLUE record seems to work). The > interesting thing is that it works fine if we try to resolve the domain > using either Windows DNS or using Google open DNS service. > > Since a number of sites seem to have this type of problems we would like > to be able to resolve them as well. Any idea of how can we configure to > be able to circumvent this problem?
The best thing is to complain to the administrator of the zone, hostmas...@ecb.int, i...@key-systems.net, jan.pflugr...@ecb.int. Then complain to the "EU" administrators as they are *also* responsible for keeping delegations up to date (RFC 1034) and this one clearly isn't up to date. Mark > Please find below some digs I did to diagnose the problem. > > Regards and Thanks > Gilbert > University of Malta > > ---- > Asking the EU servers > r...@wenzu:~/bind-9.7.0# dig ns ecb.eu @a.nic.eu > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 58355 > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > ecb.eu. 86400 IN NS ns1.ecb.int. > > Checking for the NS records ... > r...@wenzu:~/bind-9.7.0# dig ns ecb.eu @ns1.ecb.int. > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3891 > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > ecb.eu. 86400 IN NS ns1.de.colt.net. > ecb.eu. 86400 IN NS ns0.de.colt.net. > ecb.eu. 86400 IN NS auth02.ns.de.uu.net. > ecb.eu. 86400 IN NS auth52.ns.de.uu.net. > > Asking their NS Servers: > r...@wenzu:~/bind-9.7.0# dig ns ecb.eu @auth02.ns.de.uu.net > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 27397 > ---- > > > > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users