[dns-operations] l is broken

[Mark Andrews]

In message <20120209104829.GA12655 at nic.fr>, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:43:42PM +1100,
>  Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote 
>  a message of 41 lines which said:
> 
> > % dig -4 soa . @l.root-servers.net
> 
> Works for me. Can you try with NSID to see what instance it is?
> 
% dig -4 +nsid . soa @l.root-servers.net

; <<>> DiG 9.7.3-P3 <<>> -4 +nsid . soa @l.root-servers.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 23085
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
; NSID: 62 6e 65 30 31 2e 6c 2e 72 6f 6f 74 2d 73 65 72 76 65 72 73 2e 6f 72 67  (b) (n) (e) (0) (1) (.) (l) (.) (r) (o) (o) (t) (-) (s) (e) (r) (v) (e) (r) (s) (.) (o) (r) (g)
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;.				IN	SOA

;; Query time: 31 msec
;; SERVER: 199.7.83.42#53(199.7.83.42)
;; WHEN: Thu Feb  9 22:30:09 2012
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 56

% 
> 
> % dig +nsid -4 soa . @l.root-servers.net
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> +nsid -4 soa . @l.root-servers.net
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 14841
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 23
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
> 
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ; NSID: 72 75 6e 30 31 2e 6c 2e 72 6f 6f 74 2d 73 65 72 76 65 72 73 2e 6f 72 
> 67  (r) (u) (n) (0) (1) (.) (l) (.) (r) (o) (o) (t) (-) (s) (e) (r) (v) (e) (
> r) (s) (.) (o) (r) (g)
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;.				IN	SOA
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> .			86400	IN	SOA	a.root-servers.net. nstld.veris
> ign-grs.com. 2012020801 1800 900 604800 86400
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> .			518400	IN	NS	a.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	b.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	c.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	d.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	e.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	f.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	g.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	h.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	i.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	j.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	k.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	l.root-servers.net.
> .			518400	IN	NS	m.root-servers.net.
> 
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> a.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	198.41.0.4
> b.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	192.228.79.201
> c.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	192.33.4.12
> d.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	128.8.10.90
> e.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	192.203.230.10
> f.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	192.5.5.241
> g.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	192.112.36.4
> h.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	128.63.2.53
> i.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	192.36.148.17
> j.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	192.58.128.30
> k.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	193.0.14.129
> l.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	199.7.83.42
> m.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	A	202.12.27.33
> a.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	AAAA	2001:503:ba3e::2:30
> d.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	AAAA	2001:500:2d::d
> f.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	AAAA	2001:500:2f::f
> h.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	AAAA	2001:500:1::803f:235
> i.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	AAAA	2001:7fe::53
> j.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	AAAA	2001:503:c27::2:30
> k.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	AAAA	2001:7fd::1
> l.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	AAAA	2001:500:3::42
> m.root-servers.net.	518400	IN	AAAA	2001:dc3::35
> 
> ;; Query time: 219 msec
> ;; SERVER: 199.7.83.42#53(199.7.83.42)
> ;; WHEN: Thu Feb  9 11:48:23 2012
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 784
> 
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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