SUMMARY:Non-Authoritative DNS lookups

From: gosselinm@netscout.com
Date: Thu Jul 13 2000 - 11:54:47 CDT


Thanks to all who reponded, including:

jkennedy@amcc.com
Dieter Wurm
brown@obscure.org
bergman@panix.com
bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov
therr@va.rr.com
Rodney Wines
eddy@iescrow.com
James Gilliland
John Cosimano
hmnguyen@docharbor.net

Most of all thanks to Andy Townsend.

Andy's answer that my problem was in my zone file was right on.... There
was a missing newline
on one of the very early lines in the file.... Once that was corrected, I
was back to getting authoritative
answers from DNS. It also cleared up any sendmail problems I was
having....
The sendmail problem was as follows:

mailx -v <user>@<machinename>
Name lookup failure... message queued for delivery....

Now, after fixing the zone file, it works like a charm....

Thanks,
Mark Gosselin
NetScout Systems

---------------------- Forwarded by Mark Gosselin/NetScout on 07/13/2000
11:30 AM ---------------------------

Mark Gosselin
07/12/2000 10:48 AM

To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
cc: (bcc: Mark Gosselin/NetScout)

Subject: Non-Authoritative DNS lookups

Hi List,

Having a problem with DNS. Anyone had experience with this??

Every time I do a lookup of a node, I get a reply with the
Non-authoritative answer
before it.... I think this is causing some problems with sendmail, so if
anyone knows how
to eliminate the Non-authoritative answer, I would appreciate any input.

I've looked this up in the O'Reilly DNs and Bind book. It says it's normal
when the answer is
read from cache. How would I clear the cache to check that????

Thanks,

Mark Gosselin
NetScout Systems, Inc.

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