On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 10:49:39AM +1300, Adrian Smith wrote:
Can anyone tell me why nslookup is adding my domain name on to an nslookup of icq.mirabilis.com ... and then trying to do a lookup on that ?
jabley(a)goose[130]$ dig icq.mirabilis.com ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> icq.mirabilis.com ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 8, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; icq.mirabilis.com, type = A, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: icq.mirabilis.com. 10M IN CNAME icq.fes.mirabilis.com. icq.fes.mirabilis.com. 10M IN CNAME 1.fes.mirabilis.com. 1.fes.mirabilis.com. 10M IN A 205.188.153.101 1.fes.mirabilis.com. 10M IN A 205.188.153.102 1.fes.mirabilis.com. 10M IN A 205.188.153.97 1.fes.mirabilis.com. 10M IN A 205.188.153.98 1.fes.mirabilis.com. 10M IN A 205.188.153.99 1.fes.mirabilis.com. 10M IN A 205.188.153.100 ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: fes.mirabilis.com. 10M IN NS dns-01.icq.net. fes.mirabilis.com. 10M IN NS dns-02.icq.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: dns-01.icq.net. 1d23h59m55s IN A 152.163.159.234 dns-02.icq.net. 1d21h35m55s IN A 205.188.157.234 ;; Total query time: 5531 msec ;; FROM: goose.automagic.org to SERVER: default -- 127.0.0.1 ;; WHEN: Mon Oct 22 17:51:59 2001 ;; MSG SIZE sent: 35 rcvd: 267 Note that mirabilis' DNS is broken, here. They have a CNAME pointing at a CNAME; that wasn't allowed last time I checked. Maybe you're running some hideously intolerant resolver library, or nameserver. Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog