Re: dig fails but ping works

From: piggy (piggy_at_lateral.net)
Date: 12/08/03 

Date: 8 Dec 2003 10:10:31 -0800

mfuhr@fuhr.org (Michael Fuhr) wrote in message news:<3fd10fa0$1_4@omega.dimensional.com>...
[snip]
> A non-existent name could resolve if your DNS server has a wildcard
> A record, but that should show up with dig or host.
>
[snip]

I've fixed this problem now. It turned out that in /etc/resolv.conf,
we had

nameserver <ip1>
nameserver <ip2>
search lateral.net

And on our DNS server, we had this wildcard for the domain
lateral.net:
* A 195.224.94.181

The last line of resolv.conf in combination with the wildcard must be
the culprit, because I no longer can ping unresolved hostnames. (BTW I
didn't put that wildcard in there - honest! ;-)

Thanks for all the help!
P

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