Domain lookup weirdness after transfer?

From: David Dear (david@netimpact.net)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 10:00:19 EDT


We are having an issue this morning with some domains recently transferred from NSI to OpenSRS.

The name servers names/numbers are unchanged for each domain and our name servers themselves have not been altered in any way on our end.

Yet, for some domains, they are not resolving properly. To dig into the problem we ran "nslookup" with "set debug" and normally we'd see (A) below, yet today we see (B) below for a couple domains. For troublesome domains we get a list of the root servers rather than a list of our name servers.

Anybody know why this is happening? or where the fault lies?

Thanks in advance,
David

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(A) Normal results
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> dear.com
Server: rdns01.wlhm01.exodus.net
Address: 216.34.112.198

;; res_nmkquery(QUERY, dear.com, IN, A)
timeout
------------
Got answer:
    HEADER:
        opcode = QUERY, id = 31135, rcode = NOERROR
        header flags: response, want recursion, recursion avail.
        questions = 1, answers = 1, authority records = 2, additional = 2

    QUESTIONS:
        dear.com, type = A, class = IN
    ANSWERS:
    -> dear.com
        internet address = 64.28.73.11
        ttl = 46868 (13h1m8s)
    AUTHORITY RECORDS:
    -> dear.com
        nameserver = NS1.NETIMPACT.NET
        ttl = 3284 (54m44s)
    -> dear.com
        nameserver = NS2.NETIMPACT.NET
        ttl = 3284 (54m44s)
    ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
    -> NS1.NETIMPACT.NET
        internet address = 64.14.87.231
        ttl = 52661 (14h37m41s)
    -> NS2.NETIMPACT.NET
        internet address = 64.14.87.232
        ttl = 52661 (14h37m41s)

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(B) Oddball results
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> brickbodies.com
Server: rdns01.wlhm01.exodus.net
Address: 216.34.112.198

;; res_nmkquery(QUERY, brickbodies.com, IN, A)
------------
Got answer:
    HEADER:
        opcode = QUERY, id = 31133, rcode = NOERROR
        header flags: response, want recursion, recursion avail.
        questions = 1, answers = 1, authority records = 12, additional = 12

    QUESTIONS:
        brickbodies.com, type = A, class = IN
    ANSWERS:
    -> brickbodies.com
        internet address = 64.28.73.162
        ttl = 27660 (7h41m)
    AUTHORITY RECORDS:
    -> COM
        nameserver = A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    -> COM
        nameserver = I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        ttl = 52944 (14h42m24s)
    ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
    -> A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 198.41.0.4
        ttl = 139344 (1d14h42m24s)
    -> G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 192.112.36.4
        ttl = 139344 (1d14h42m24s)
    -> F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 198.17.208.67
        ttl = 774 (12m54s)
    -> F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 192.5.5.241
        ttl = 139344 (1d14h42m24s)
    -> E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 192.203.230.10
        ttl = 139344 (1d14h42m24s)
    -> J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 198.41.0.21
        ttl = 19624 (5h27m4s)
    -> K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 195.8.99.11
        ttl = 25447 (7h4m7s)
    -> A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 198.41.3.38
        ttl = 5116 (1h25m16s)
    -> M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 210.176.152.18
        ttl = 6232 (1h43m52s)
    -> H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 216.33.75.82
        ttl = 34530 (9h35m30s)
    -> C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 205.188.185.18
        ttl = 44209 (12h16m49s)
    -> I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET
        internet address = 192.36.144.253
        ttl = 7374 (2h2m54s)

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