[20366] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.1.3: dig
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Tue May 28 11:48:44 2002
Message-Id: <200205281548.LAA28948@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 11:48:39 -0400
From: John Carr <jfc@MIT.EDU>
System name: contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu
Type and version: Sun-Fire-280R 9.1.3 (with mkserv)
Display type: unknown
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
Use the `@' option to dig to choose a nameserver.
What's wrong:
% dig @w20-ns.mit.edu. www.cnn.com.
dig: Couldn't find server 'w20-ns.mit.edu.': address family not supported
According to "truss", no system call is failing with the indicated
error. The lookup for w20-ns is returning NXDOMAIN (I meant "w20ns")
but the error is not being reported properly. I didn't even think
to check whether the name existed because of the misleading error
message.
What should have happened:
dig: Couldn't find server 'w20-ns.mit.edu.': Host not found
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