[dns-operations] CNAME into a delegated zone goes wrong.... any ideas?

[Steven Carr]

the answer is staring you in the face...

> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

The server is only responding with what you have asked for, recursive
lookup for your request is denied.

Steve

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On 12 June 2011 22:39, Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Check this weird result:
> 8<------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ dig @ns1.paphosting.net ntp.us.sixxs.net aaaa
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @ns1.paphosting.net ntp.us.sixxs.net aaaa
> ; (2 servers found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 8890
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 6, ADDITIONAL: 6
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;ntp.us.sixxs.net.              IN      AAAA
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> ntp.us.sixxs.net.       3600    IN      CNAME   us.ntp.sixxs.net.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> ntp.sixxs.net.          3600    IN      NS      ns1.sixxs.net.
> ntp.sixxs.net.          3600    IN      NS      ns2.sixxs.net.
> ntp.sixxs.net.          3600    IN      NS      ns3.sixxs.net.
> sixxs.net.              3600    IN      NS      ns.paphosting.net.
> sixxs.net.              3600    IN      NS      ns.paphosting.nl.
> sixxs.net.              3600    IN      NS      ns.paphosting.eu.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> ns1.sixxs.net.          3600    IN      A       193.1.31.74
> ns2.sixxs.net.          3600    IN      A       78.141.179.38
> ns3.sixxs.net.          3600    IN      A       38.229.76.3
> ns1.sixxs.net.          3600    IN      AAAA    2001:770:18:8::4
> ns2.sixxs.net.          3600    IN      AAAA    2001:7e8:1:102::a
> ns3.sixxs.net.          3600    IN      AAAA    2620:0:6b0:a:250:56ff:fe99:78f7
>
> ;; Query time: 4 msec
> ;; SERVER:
> 2001:7b8:3:47:20d:b9ff:fe14:70d4#53(2001:7b8:3:47:20d:b9ff:fe14:70d4)
> ;; WHEN: Sun Jun 12 23:35:18 2011
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 345
> -------------------------------------------------------------------->8
>
> What is the reason that the CNAME does not cause another query to
> ns1.sixxs.net for the us.ntp.sixxs.net label?
>
> One can query ntp.sixxs.net just fine, and also us.ntp.sixxs.net works
> like a charm. But the CNAME seems to mess this up somewhere.
>
> Anybody any idea? :)
>
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
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