If you recently update your BIND server to version 9.9.X, you will noticed that you unable to read slave zone file.
Below is the example of zone file
As per checking on BIND official release notes from ISC, BIND version 9.9.x store Slave Zones file in raw/binary format.
In order to view the content of Slave Zone file, you need to convert “raw” format zone files to “text” format using the named-compilezone utility that comes with BIND. Continue reading
I believe most of your used nslookup command to query particular DNS record. Sometime, the nslookup return result with “Non-authoritative answer” follow by a list of nameservers. What “Non-authoritative answer” referring to?
When we sending DNS query to DNS Server, DNS server can provides either an authoritative or a non-authoritative response to the client query.
Below are the differences between Authoritative Responses and Non-Authoritative Responses
Authoritative
– An authoritative response is one in which the server returns an answer that it knows is correct, because the request is directed to the authoritative server that manages the domain. An DNS server is authoritative when it hosts a primary or secondary copy of a DNS Zone.
Non-authoritative
– A non authoritative response is one in which the DNS server that contains the requested domain in its cache answers a query by using forwarders or root hints. Because the answer provided might not be accurate (only authoritative DNS server can issue that domain information), it is called a non-authoritative response.
When troubleshooting DNS problem, Nslookup is used to perform DNS queries and to examine the contents of zone files on local and remote servers.
Nslookup is a standard command-line tool which available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS platform. Nslookup offers you the ability to perform query testing of DNS servers and to obtain detailed responses at the command prompt.
To use nslookup in command-line mode, enter the following in the command prompt window:
nslookup DNS_name_or_IP_address server_IP_address
This command will look up a DNS name or address using a server at the IP address you specify.”
Here i going to show few examples on using the nslookup command. Continue reading