[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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