Re: BIND servfail from caching server

2011-03-04 Thread Justin Krejci
Thanks, I was able to setup a forward zone in the caching servers for supernet.com and forward to the ns{2,3}.earthlink.net servers. I will check periodically for their fixing of the zone and then remove the forward zone in the caching servers. Is there a simple tool to quickly identify this kind

Re: BIND servfail from caching server

2011-03-03 Thread Chris Buxton
It's because the NS RRSet returned by the authoritative name servers lists servers that are not authoritative. Classic DNS mistake. The com zone says that the authoritative servers for supernet.com are ns{2,3}.earthlink.net (delegation). But supernet.com as hosted on ns{2,3}.earthlink.net says

Re: BIND servfail from caching server

2011-03-03 Thread Justin Krejci
Forgot to additionally add that the only thing that showed up in the logs was the query log entry, nothing else pertaining the below query. I also checked with tcpdump on the caching server that it was not sending any queries towards the Earthlink IP addresses which makes sense given that the SERVF

BIND servfail from caching server

2011-03-03 Thread Justin Krejci
When doing a recursive query for MX supernet.com against a caching BIND server, the BIND server responds back with the answer. The TTL is 300. After the TTL expires the following recursive query for the same record returns a SERVFAIL from the caching server. If I do a +trace on the same query to