DIG returns root servers

[lardum]

Anyone know why DIG returns root servers when querying an ordinary domain?

 

[brontosaurus]

can you give an example? or show the command syntax you used? I use DIG frequently and it's pretty good...

 

[lardum]

try this:

dig aftonbladet.se @ns.handelsbanken.se

It seems to respond like that on every query you make.

DO you have any ideas?

 

[brontosaurus]

My guess would be that particular nameserver is just not collecting data very well. It's not a problem with DIG, the same thing happens with NSLOOKUP. Try this and see what happens, this nameserver belongs to a friend of mine...

dig aftonbladet.se @ns.degler.net

 

[lardum]

thanks for the help. the info i have in my research is:

DNS servers are not setup to allow lookups from outside hosts on names that it is not the authority of. This commonly happens when trying to query yahoo.com's name servers. It prevents the name server from being taxed by needless lookups.