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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:54:59 +0930

BIND 9.1.0 bug resurfaces

That BIND 9.1.0 bug that I mentioned a few weeks
ago has resurfaced, even though I took some of
the courses of action (well, one at least) that
were recommended.

Here are the symptoms.

When I run nslookup with my BIND 9.1.0 name server
I get this:

====================================================
dingo /home/akenning> nslookup www.foreignteacher.com.tw
Server:  dog.topology.org
Address:  203.38.148.51

*** dog.topology.org can't find www.foreignteacher.com.tw: Non-existent host/domain
dingo /home/akenning> 
====================================================

When I use the Telstra nameserver, I get this:

====================================================
hamster /etc# nslookup www.foreignteacher.com.tw
Server:  uneeda.telstra.net
Address:  139.130.4.4

Name:    www.foreignteacher.com.tw
Address:  192.72.83.8

hamster /etc# 
====================================================

No matter which machines I make the query to dog.topology.org
from, I get the same negative response.

Now what I did to my /etc/named.conf file on dog is this:

====================================================
options {
    directory "/var/named";
    pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
    auth-nxdomain no;
    allow-recursion {
        localhost;
        203.38.148.48/28;   // Topology.org network.
        203.48.2.224/27;    // Topoz.net network.
        };
    }; 
====================================================

I.e. I just let my own machines to the recursion thing.
And I take it that this is waht I was supposed to do
to stop other people mucking around with the named cache,
and generally wasting my bandwidth, RAM, etc.


Could anyone please either tell me what I can do to
diagnose and fix this itnermittent problem?

Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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