[dns-operations] Missing .us and GTLD records??

[Mark Andrews]

In message <20100519100113.GA9662 at vacation.karoshi.com.>, bmanning at vacation.kar
oshi.com writes:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:38:41AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > 
> > In message <20100519000419.GA1296950 at hiwaay.net>, Chris Adams writes:
> > > Once upon a time, Luis Uribarri <uribarri at alum.mit.edu> said:
> > > > dig: Couldn't find server 'j.gtld.biz': Name or service not known
> > > > ======================================
> > > > ;; Received 472 bytes from 192.33.4.12#53(c.root-servers.net) in 21 ms
> > > > 
> > > > dig: Couldn't find server 'j.cctld.us': Name or service not known
> > > > ======================================
> > > > Sure enough,
> > > > You can confirm with plain old BIND, the "A" records do not exist, (jus
> t 
> > > > the glue, but not the A), should not all 'Registered Name Servers' have
>  
> > > > the 'A' records published, or am I totally wrong here.
> > > 
> > > You are using an older version of dig that assumes all servers have A
> > > records.  The above servers only have AAAA records, which is perfectly
> > > valid.
> > 
> > Or the OS doesn't have IPv6 turned on.  Time to turn on IPv6.
> > 
> > Mark
> > -- 
> > Mark Andrews, ISC
> 
> 	v6 transport has nothing to do w/ the contents of 
> 	the datagram.  He asked for "A" records (thats what the
> 	tool -assumes-, and when none were found, it told him
> 	so...  

Bill, the message "Couldn't find server 'j.gtld.biz': Name or service 
not known" is sensitive the to query transport.  If he had had working
IPv6 support the original lookups would have succeeded (assuming the
server was up).

Mark
-- 
Mark Andrews, ISC
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