Re: How to get BIND to query the right server?

In article <cdmaq4$1kqv$1@sf1.isc.org>,
adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan) wrote:

> I tried getting named to dump. On Machine 2, I found this in
> named_dump.db:
>
> GOV 86400 IN NS L3.NSTLD.COM. ;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 86400 IN NS D3.NSTLD.COM. ;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 86400 IN NS A3.NSTLD.COM. ;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 86400 IN NS E3.NSTLD.COM. ;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 86400 IN NS C3.NSTLD.COM. ;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 86400 IN NS F3.NSTLD.COM. ;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 86400 IN NS G3.NSTLD.COM. ;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 86400 IN NS B3.NSTLD.COM. ;Cl=0 LAME=430
> 86400 IN NS M3.NSTLD.COM. ;Cl=0 LAME=430
>
> But on Machine 1, which works, named_dump.db has this:
>
> GOV 172800 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cl=0
> 172800 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cl=0
> 172800 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cl=0
> 172800 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cl=0
> 172800 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cl=0
> 172800 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cl=0
> 172800 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cl=0
> 172800 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cl=0
> 172800 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;Cl=0
>
> Somehow I need to convince BIND on Machine 2 to stop querying the
> wrong server and start querying the right one, but I can't figure out
> how to tell it what to do.

Neither of those seems right. I see:

barmar $ dig gov ns @a.root-servers.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> gov ns @a.root-servers.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24758
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 7

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gov. IN NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
gov. 172800 IN NS G.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov. 172800 IN NS F.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov. 172800 IN NS E.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov. 172800 IN NS D.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov. 172800 IN NS C.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov. 172800 IN NS B.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.
gov. 172800 IN NS A.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
G.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. 172800 IN A 66.135.32.100
F.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. 172800 IN A 66.197.185.229
E.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. 172800 IN A 82.165.40.134
D.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. 172800 IN A 209.97.207.48
C.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. 172800 IN A 69.72.142.35
B.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. 172800 IN A 206.51.224.229
A.GOV.ZONEEDIT.COM. 172800 IN A 216.55.155.29

;; Query time: 31 msec
;; SERVER: 198.41.0.4#53(a.root-servers.net)
;; WHEN: Wed Jul 21 15:17:41 2004
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 261

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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