Package: bind9-host Version: 1:9.11.2.P1-1 Severity: normal host is giving invalid results for some queries, for example the below. It is likely worth noting that I do have a searchdomain configured, though I also included the "null label" in these examples, so it shouldn't be interpreting searchdomains anyway. Running without directly specifying the nameserver to query ("host -t NS com.") DOES work.
$ host -t NS com. a.root-servers.net Using domain server: Name: a.root-servers.net Address: 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53 Aliases: com has no NS record $ host -t NS -v com. a.root-servers.net Trying "com" Using domain server: Name: a.root-servers.net Address: 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53 Aliases: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41664 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 12 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;com. IN NS ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: com. 172800 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS f.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS a.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net. com. 172800 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: e.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.12.94.30 e.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:502:1ca1::30 b.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.33.14.30 b.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:503:231d::2:30 j.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.48.79.30 j.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:502:7094::30 m.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.55.83.30 m.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:501:b1f9::30 i.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.43.172.30 i.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:503:39c1::30 f.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.35.51.30 f.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN AAAA 2001:503:d414::30 Received 509 bytes from 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53 in 6 ms -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages bind9-host depends on: ii libbind9-160 1:9.11.2.P1-1 ii libc6 2.27-2 ii libcap2 1:2.25-1.2 ii libcomerr2 1.44.0-1 ii libdns169 1:9.11.2.P1-1 ii libgeoip1 1.6.12-1 ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.16-2 ii libisc166 1:9.11.2.P1-1 ii libisccfg160 1:9.11.2.P1-1 ii libjson-c3 0.12.1-1.3 ii libk5crypto3 1.16-2 ii libkrb5-3 1.16-2 ii liblmdb0 0.9.21-1 ii liblwres160 1:9.11.2.P1-1 ii libssl1.1 1.1.0g-2 ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-6.1 bind9-host recommends no packages. bind9-host suggests no packages. -- no debconf information