> It's because a few load balancer vendors don't read freely available > specifications but instead appear to reverse engineer the protocol and get it > wrong.
> BIND 9.7.0 fixed a long standing of accepting glue promoted to answer by > parent nameservers. Once we did that there was no need to accept none "aa" > answers from servers that have been listed as being authoritative for the > zone. This allowed the resolver to ignore broken authoritative servers. > This got relaxed in later release of BIND 9.7. It's fairly easy for me to deploy a VM and build a particular version of bind. Below is your query run on 9.7.0-P1 and 9.7.4-P1. It fails on the former and succeeds on the latter, as suggested by Mark Andrews above. Are you in a position to upgrade bind? Jeff. ; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> @localhost winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com. ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 28201 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com. IN A ;; Query time: 1744 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 9 19:36:51 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 57 ; <<>> DiG 9.7.4-P1 <<>> @localhost winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com. ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47557 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: winqual.partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 10 IN A 131.107.97.31 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 3600 IN NS dns11.one.microsoft.com. partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 3600 IN NS dns12.one.microsoft.com. partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 3600 IN NS dns10.one.microsoft.com. partners.extranet.microsoft.com. 3600 IN NS dns13.one.microsoft.com. ;; Query time: 668 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Thu Feb 9 19:15:58 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 157 _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users