[171521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Paging HP DNS admin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Sat May 3 23:20:47 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20140504031351.GC12342@cmadams.net>
Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 20:20:39 -0700
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net> wrote:
> You left out the authority section that refers you to the correct DNS
> servers - ns[1-6].hp.com are not it. They delegate to another set of HP
> servers, which all time out (as stated by the OP) when asked for AAAA.
>
Actually the OP said that it returned SERVFAIL, which the HP servers don't,
but Googles public DNS server (and potentially others) does.
> Oddly, it seems to be specific to AAAA; any other type request I send
> comes back NOERROR correctly. It is like somebody tried to handle AAAA
> "special" and screwed it up.
>
This isn't new. RFC 4074 from 2005 covers this exact issue. From memory,
this is/was the default behavior for DJBDNS.
Scott
