I suspect that dig is confused. Let me explain.
Looks like WHOIS says that these (2) servers are authoritative for this domain:
ns1.thehartford.com. ['162.136.188.1'] [TTL=172800]
ns2.thehartford.com. ['162.136.190.1'] [TTL=172800]
However, the DNS configuration says something different, which lists these (4)
servers instead:
hfdns3.thehartford.com ['162.136.188.3'] [TTL=120]
hfdns4.thehartford.com ['162.136.188.4'] [TTL=120]
simns3.thehartford.com ['162.136.190.3'] [TTL=120]
simns4.thehartford.com ['162.136.190.4'] [TTL=120]
As one can see, they do not match nor even overlap nor even agree.
Someone needs to decide which servers are really supposed to be authoritative
for this domain and have alignment in all configurations.
http://www.intodns.com/thehartford.com
Hope this helps.
>________________________________
> From: M. Meadows <sun-g...@live.com>
>To: bind-users <bind-users@lists.isc.org>
>Sent: Friday, January 6, 2012 8:28 AM
>Subject: variable dig results
>
>
>
>
>Wondering why we get variable results from the following command: dig
>eftc.thehartford.com
>(sometimes we get authority section and additional section feedback ...
>sometimes we don't)
>
>Usually we see the following:
>
>; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 <<>> eftc.thehartford.com
>;; global options: printcmd
>;; Got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35955
>;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
>;; QUESTION SECTION:
>;eftc.thehartford.com. IN A
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>eftc.thehartford.com. 120 IN A 162.136.189.173
>;; Query time: 94 msec
>;; SERVER: 172.25.17.185#53(172.25.17.185)
>;; WHEN: Fri Jan 6 07:23:07 2012
>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 54
>
>
>But occasionally we see :
>
>
>; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.2 <<>> eftc.thehartford.com ;;
>global options: printcmd ;; Got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 64958 ;; flags: qr aa;
>QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4
>
>;; QUESTION SECTION:
>;eftc.thehartford.com. IN A
>
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>eftc.thehartford.com. 120 IN A 162.136.189.173
>
>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>thehartford.com. 120 IN NS
>hfdns3.thehartford.com.
>thehartford.com. 120 IN NS
>hfdns4.thehartford.com.
>thehartford.com. 120 IN NS
>simns3.thehartford.com.
>thehartford.com. 120 IN NS
>simns4.thehartford.com.
>
>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>hfdns3.thehartford.com. 120 IN A
>162.136.188.3
>hfdns4.thehartford.com. 120 IN A
>162.136.188.4
>simns3.thehartford.com. 120 IN A
>162.136.190.3
>simns4.thehartford.com. 120 IN A
>162.136.190.4
>
>;; Query time: 52 msec
>;; SERVER: 172.25.17.185#53(172.25.17.185) ;; WHEN: Fri Jan 6 00:10:02 2012
>;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 202
>
>
>I assume this is due to differences in response from different auth
>nameservers. If that's the case ... what does one have set up to return the
>2nd response?
>
>Thanks!
>Martin Meadows
>
>
>
>
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