[wplug] Very strange DNS activity
Patrick Wagstrom
pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Jul 28 12:57:21 EDT 2005
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 12:40 -0400, Bill Moran wrote:
> I'd be grateful to anyone who can explain what the government is doing with
> their DNS. It appears as if www.treas.gov is an alias for
> treas.tpaq.treasury.gov, but treas.tpaq.treasury.gov does not have a
> DNS record.
>
> However, if you go to www.treas.gov in a web browser, all works well.
>
> Anyone have enough DNS-fu to explain this oddity?
Looks like a problem with your setup. Everything looks kosher here.
[~]
[patrick at aspirations] host www.treas.gov
www.treas.gov is an alias for treas.tpaq.treasury.gov.
treas.tpaq.treasury.gov has address 66.77.70.101
[~]
[patrick at aspirations] host treas.tpaq.treasury.gov
treas.tpaq.treasury.gov has address 66.77.70.101
[~]
[patrick at aspirations] dig www.treas.gov
; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> www.treas.gov
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 63141
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.treas.gov. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.treas.gov. 10 IN CNAME treas.tpaq.treasury.gov.
treas.tpaq.treasury.gov. 2 IN A 66.77.70.101
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
tpaq.treasury.gov. 86372 IN NS dns1mint.treasury.gov.
tpaq.treasury.gov. 86372 IN NS dns2mint.treasury.gov.
;; Query time: 41 msec
;; SERVER: 128.2.1.10#53(128.2.1.10)
;; WHEN: Thu Jul 28 12:55:59 2005
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 127
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