On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net> wrote: > Once upon a time, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> said: >> if I ask ns1/2/3/4/5/6.hp.com directly for AAAA for onramp01.hpeprint.com.: >> >> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> AAAA onramp01.hpeprint.com. @ns6.hp.com >> ;; global options: +cmd >> ;; Got answer: >> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 30318 >> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 6 >> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available >> >> ;; QUESTION SECTION: >> ;onramp01.hpeprint.com. IN AAAA > > You left out the authority section that refers you to the correct DNS
darned it :( yes. > servers - ns[1-6].hp.com are not it. They delegate to another set of HP > servers, which all time out (as stated by the OP) when asked for AAAA. > yup :( > Oddly, it seems to be specific to AAAA; any other type request I send > comes back NOERROR correctly. It is like somebody tried to handle AAAA > "special" and screwed it up. I remember nytimes doing something like this for a while, I believe they said their GSLB was just not happy doing AAAA, or if not configured would display similar behaviour. -chris
