[51153] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .mil domain root only hosted by one server??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Wed Aug 21 16:26:58 2002
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:12:28 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
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nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20020821153930.027947b0@pop3.tellurian.com>; from vinny@tellurian.com on Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:46:22PM -0400
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In short: you asked the wrong question.
Once upon a time, Vinny Abello <vinny@tellurian.com> said:
> These are the results I got when I queried A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET:
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> @a.root-servers.net mil.
> ;; global options: printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;mil. IN A
You asked for A records. Since a.root-servers.net does not have any A
records, and since it isn't a recursive server, it just gave you the SOA
for mil.
If you ask for NS records (like "dig @a.root-servers.net mil. ns"),
you'll see a different picture.
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
