Hi all,
We are seeing odd behaviour when attempting to look up the following url from a range of Redhat servers. bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com should resolve to 209.202.248.251 but we see the following. [...@xxxx ~]$ host bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com Host bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com not found: 2(SERVFAIL) But then if we [...@xxxx~]$ dig -t any bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com ; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> -t any bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63245 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com. IN ANY ;; ANSWER SECTION: bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com. 3600 IN CNAME mail-bigmail1.bo3.lycos.com. ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: lycosmail.lycos.com. 3600 IN NS ns1.lycos.com. lycosmail.lycos.com. 3600 IN NS ns2.lycos.com. lycosmail.lycos.com. 3600 IN NS ns3.lycos.com. lycosmail.lycos.com. 3600 IN NS ns4.lycos.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: ns4.lycos.com. 73682 IN A 209.202.244.142 ;; Query time: 110 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Fri Aug 21 14:26:47 2009 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 166 And then [...@xxxx~]$ host bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com is an alias for mail-bigmail1.bo3.lycos.com. mail-bigmail1.bo3.lycos.com has address 209.202.248.251 errors we see in the bind log 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.118 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com A 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.202 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving 'bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN': 209.202.244.142#53 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.286 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving 'bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN': 209.202.248.142#53 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.369 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving 'bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN': 209.202.244.141#53 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.453 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving 'bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN': 209.202.248.141#53 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.453 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com A 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.537 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving 'bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN': 209.202.244.141#53 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.621 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving 'bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN': 209.202.248.142#53 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.704 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving 'bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN': 209.202.244.142#53 05-Aug-2009 12:53:36.788 lame-servers: info: FORMERR resolving 'bigmail1.lycosmail.lycos.com/A/IN': 209.202.248.141#53 05-Aug-2009 12:57:31.142 resolver: debug 1: createfetch: scansafe.com A The expected subdomain is returned, the only other FORMERR cases I’ve seen (on google) show the authority section not matching the answer. A debug trace may be found at http://the.earth.li/~huggie/lycos-bind9-issue.txt<http://the.earth.li/%7Ehuggie/lycos-bind9-issue.txt> Any suggestions as to what the issue is or how it may be resolved would be very welcome. Kind Regards Matt
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