Help again please Fwd: please fix your broken DNS server

[David Malone]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:40:55PM -0400, Kevin Miller wrote:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 5071
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;gwise.ci.mil.wi.us.            IN      AAAA
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> ci.mil.wi.us.           86400   IN      SOA     ci.mil.wi.us.
> administrator.ci.mil.wi.us. 998545544 28800 7200 604800 86400

> Thus we're getting an SOA for 'ci.mil.wi.us' when we asked for a AAAA of
> gwise.ci.mil.wi.us. I suspect this is what's causing SERVFAIL's of every
> server trying to track down the AAAAs, including the SERVFAILs from
> itmddnsYx.milwaukee.gov.

The respones looks correct to me - we asked for AAAA records for
gwise.ci.mil.wi.us and the server said that there were 0 records
of that type and points us at ci.mil.wi.us as being authorititive.
AFAIK, that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

	David.