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Re: [cobalt-users] dodgy nameservers
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] dodgy nameservers
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat Oct 26 07:51:01 2002
- Organization: Front Street Networks LLC
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:30, alan@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
<snip>
> Notice that although octagono.uk.com resolves to the correct ip, if i run
> nslookup on the ip, i get ns.time2time.com as the result. This can't be
> right can it ?
Yes it can be right, depends on how the pointer record is setup
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
199.67.212.in-addr.arpa. 5H IN SOA ns.webfusion.co.uk.
hostmaster.webfusion.co.uk. (
Looks like webfusion.co.uk is the owner/leaseor of the IP addresses
[root etc]# dig ns.octagono.uk.com
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ns.octagono.uk.com
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; ns.octagono.uk.com, type = A, class = IN
;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns.octagono.uk.com. 3H IN A 212.67.199.163
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
octagono.uk.com. 3H IN NS ns.octagono.uk.com.
octagono.uk.com. 3H IN NS ns2.octagono.uk.com.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.octagono.uk.com. 3H IN A 212.67.199.163
ns2.octagono.uk.com. 3H IN A 212.67.199.164
Gerald
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