[CentOS] Re: Problems with bind on 5.2

[Robert - elists]

After digging for a bit at arin

Near as I can tell, it appears the authoritative dns servers for that
specific block are a lil messed up for the moment.

Not delegating something properly.

Tough to say without admin access to those machines.

If you check your netblock at ARIN whois, it says these two dns servers are
authoritive

OrgName:    MCI Communications Services, Inc. d/b/a Verizon Business 
OrgID:      MCICS
Address:    22001 Loudoun County Pkwy
City:       Ashburn
StateProv:  VA
PostalCode: 20147
Country:    US

NetRange:   208.192.0.0 - 208.255.255.255 
CIDR:       208.192.0.0/10 
NetName:    UUNET1996B
NetHandle:  NET-208-192-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-208-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: AUTH03.NS.UU.NET
NameServer: AUTH00.NS.UU.NET
Comment:    ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate:    1996-05-08
Updated:    2006-12-14

dig -x 208.252.226.222 @AUTH00.NS.UU.NET

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> -x 208.252.226.222 @AUTH00.NS.UU.NET
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47733
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;222.226.252.208.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
226.252.208.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN      NS      auth02.ns.uu.net.
226.252.208.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN      NS      auth20.ns.wcom.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
auth02.ns.uu.net.       3600    IN      A       198.6.1.82

When you do a reverse dig at them, one of them will tell you that this ip is
authoritive

198.6.1.82 aka That ip is auth02.ns.uu.net

Auto03 returns squat...

dig -x 208.252.226.222 @AUTH03.NS.UU.NET

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> -x 208.252.226.222 @AUTH03.NS.UU.NET
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 32548
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;222.226.252.208.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
226.252.208.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN      NS      auth02.ns.uu.net.
226.252.208.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN      NS      auth20.ns.wcom.com.

So, maybe something is a lil broken in their in-addr.arpa land

Could be wrong though...

If you dig stuff at the IP address, it seems to at least try to work though

Something is not right imho

dig -x 208.252.226.222 @198.6.1.82

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> -x 208.252.226.222 @198.6.1.82
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 62935
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;222.226.252.208.in-addr.arpa.  IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
222.226.252.208.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN  CNAME
222.192.226.252.208.in-addr.arpa.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
192.226.252.208.in-addr.arpa. 21600 IN  NS      mail.sgvwater.com.

Best wishes...

- rh