no SOA for test.cloudns.tk IMO. see: PromatoMacBook-Pro:~ pro$ dig test.cloudns.tk soa
; <<>> DiG 9.7.6-P1 <<>> test.cloudns.tk soa ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 60320 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;test.cloudns.tk. IN SOA ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: cloudns.tk. 300 IN SOA ns0.cloudwebdns.com. support.cloudwebdns.com. 1048 7200 1800 604800 300 ;; Query time: 860 msec ;; SERVER: 211.136.192.6#53(211.136.192.6) ;; WHEN: Mon Oct 15 21:13:04 2012 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 96 The SOA is presented in AUTHORITY SECTION, not in ANSWER SECTION, so it's meaningless. > > On Oct 15, 2012, at 3:45 AM, pangj <pa...@riseup.net> wrote: > >> δΊ 2012-10-15 15:38, Cathy Almond ει: >>> On 15/10/12 05:23, pangj wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I have setup a wild record for cloudns.tk, the record: >>>> >>>> *.cloudns.tk. 300 IN A 209.141.54.207 >>>> >>>> And I added another A record as this: >>>> >>>> s1.test.cloudns.tk. 300 IN A 8.8.8.8 >>>> >>>> After adding this record, the record of test.cloudns.tk gets lost, it >>>> does't match the wild record anymore. >>>> >>>> "dig test.cloudns.tk" gets nothing. >>>> >>>> Can you help explain it? thanks in advance. >>> >>> It's subtle. >>> >>> Wildcards match where there are no labels already. >>> >>> By adding record s1.test.cloudns.tk, you're implicitly creating domain >>> test.cloudns.tk. It's empty, but it exists. >>> >> >> But I didn't define a zone "test.cloudns.tk" (neither NS nor soa defined >> for it), why this domain exists? > > You created s1.test.cloudns.tk -- when you did this, you "automatically" > created test.cloudns.tk (if you had created a.b.c.d.e.cloudns.tk you would > also have created e.cloudns.tk, d.e.couldns.tk, c.d.e.cloudns.tk, > b.c.d.e.cloudns.tk). > > The DNS is basically a tree structure -- in order to have a leaf > s1.test.cloudns.tk, there needs to be a "branch" (test.cloudns.tk) for it > to hang on. By adding the s1.test.cloudns.tk leaf you also make the branch > exist. > > There *is* in fact an SOA for test.cloud.tk: > dig SOA +nocomment +nostats test.cloudns.tk > > ; <<>> DiG 9.9.2 <<>> SOA +nocomment +nostats test.cloudns.tk > ;; global options: +cmd > ;test.cloudns.tk. IN SOA > cloudns.tk. 226 IN SOA ns0.cloudwebdns.com. > support.cloudwebdns.com. 1048 > 7200 1800 604800 300 > > It is the SOA for clouds.tk. > > W > >> >> Thanks Cathy. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > -- > The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it > regularly went cuckoo. > > -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters) > > > _______________________________________________ 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
