On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Jack Woehr wrote:
>My DNS server is OpenBSD 4.3 and I'm running the default bind.
>
>The website http://www.oorexx.org 9 times out of ten does not resolve
>for me.
>
>I'm asking "why does it itermittently resolve" not because I suspect an
>OpenBSD problem (I don't) but because people on this list understand
>this stuff well.
>
>The ObjectRexx team keeps insisting everything is fine, but I've
>followed the WHOIS down to the ISP and the name server they give and
>tried nslookup against it rather than against my local server and the
>same result.
>
>The ORexx team insists I'm out of my mind (which may be true, albeit
>irrelevant).
>
>Can anyone please explain to me what's going on?
Something here is very strange:
$ dig @bos.speakeasy.net oorexx.org ns
; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> @bos.speakeasy.net oorexx.org ns
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16593
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;oorexx.org. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
oorexx.org. 2560 IN NS ns1.planetdomain.com.
oorexx.org. 2560 IN NS ns2.planetdomain.com.
;; Query time: 298 msec
;; SERVER: 66.92.64.2#53(bos.speakeasy.net)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 2 13:38:45 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 80
$ dig @ns1.planetdomain.com www.oorexx.org a
; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> @ns1.planetdomain.com www.oorexx.org a
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 42548
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.oorexx.org. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.oorexx.org. 86400 IN A 208.34.240.200
;; Query time: 281 msec
;; SERVER: 202.131.95.2#53(ns1.planetdomain.com)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 2 13:39:34 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48
$ dig @ns1.planetdomain.com www.oorexx.org ns
;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet.
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> @ns1.planetdomain.com www.oorexx.org ns
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 17790
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.oorexx.org. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.oorexx.org. 86400 IN CNAME 208.34.240.200.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
oorexx.org. 2560 IN SOA ns1.planetdomain.com.
hostmaster.planetdomain.com. 2007042001 10800 3600 604800 3600
;; Query time: 741 msec
;; SERVER: 202.131.95.2#53(ns1.planetdomain.com)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 2 13:40:08 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 127
$ dig @ns1.planetdomain.com www.oorexx.org any
; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> @ns1.planetdomain.com www.oorexx.org any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3496
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.oorexx.org. IN ANY
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.oorexx.org. 86400 IN A 208.34.240.200
;; Query time: 289 msec
;; SERVER: 202.131.95.2#53(ns1.planetdomain.com)
;; WHEN: Thu Oct 2 13:42:44 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 48
Where did that CNAME come from, why does it have what looks like an IPv4
address as its value (rather than an FQDN, as is IIRC required), and why
doesn't it show up when we request all information?
Dave
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Dave Anderson
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