[CentOS] Could not resolve host: mirror.centos.org

Sat Sep 6 13:44:53 UTC 2014
Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net>

On 05/09/14 21:15, ?????????????????? ???????????????? wrote:
> There seems to be a problem with my local dns server resolving 
> mirror.centos.org.
> I know something about dns but obviously not enough to figure out what 
> might be wrong here or how to fix
> this in bind configs. The SERVFAIL errors below seem to be related to 
> AAAA and MX queries for the domain.
> Please advise. TIA.
> 
> 
> # host mirror.centos.org 8.8.8.8
> Using domain server:
> Name: 8.8.8.8
> Address: 8.8.8.8#53
> Aliases:
> 
> mirror.centos.org has address 69.167.139.9
> 
> 
> # host mirror.centos.org
> mirror.centos.org has address 66.109.26.212
> Host mirror.centos.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
> Host mirror.centos.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
> 
> 
> # tail -F /var/named/chroot/var/named/data/named.run
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/AAAA/IN': 85.12.30.226#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/AAAA/IN': 93.113.36.66#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/AAAA/IN': 94.46.190.42#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/AAAA/IN': 85.12.30.226#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/AAAA/IN': 93.113.36.66#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/AAAA/IN': 94.46.190.42#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/MX/IN': 85.12.30.226#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/MX/IN': 93.113.36.66#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/MX/IN': 94.46.190.42#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/MX/IN': 85.12.30.226#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/MX/IN': 93.113.36.66#53
> error (FORMERR) resolving 'mirror.centos.org/MX/IN': 94.46.190.42#53
> 

Try asking the correct type (A record only) and you'll have the correct
answer : the three PDNS servers having delegation for mirror.centos.org
will only answer for A records (we have obviously no MX record for
mirror.centos.org and, unfortunately, no AAAA records for those machines
either)

PS : host is considered "deprecated" so switch to dig instead ? ;-)

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Fabian Arrotin
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