DNS, SOA, and scripts

[Sina Bahram]

Hi Kelly,

That's very odd ... I don't get that SOA record when I use the Net::DNS
package's Net::DNS::Resolver object ... Uite odd indeed

Hmm, that's just confusing.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:08 PM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: DNS, SOA, and scripts

When you lookup SOA records, *** DO NOT USE WWW BEFORE THE NAME***
hospital.com does, in fact, have a SOA record.
The registries use the "www" name on there signup screens, because it is
what people expect to see...  They actually "strip" www from your queries
when you check domain availability.
for a more detailed explaination, see the orieley dns book.
Here is the dig query for hospital.com below.


; <<>> DiG 9.2.3 <<>> soa hospital.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 38077 ;; flags: qr rd
ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;hospital.com.			IN	SOA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
hospital.com.		14387	IN	SOA	ns1.medibuy.com.
hostmaster.medibuy.com. 2005041401 14400 3600 604800 3600

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
hospital.com.		14387	IN	NS	ns1.medibuy.com.
hospital.com.		14387	IN	NS	ns2.medibuy.com.

;; Query time: 73 msec
;; SERVER: 65.17.128.7#53(65.17.128.7)
;; WHEN: Tue May 24 21:02:52 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 121


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