Search Again: Re: Testing secondary is confusing me From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, February 6, 2004 Time: 9:06:40 am At 12:08 AM -0800 2/6/04, Scott Haneda wrote: >Hello, trying to make sure a secondary is doing as it is supposed to, I use >this: > >dig @ns1.pbi.net micromat.com SOA +norecurse >Pertinant line I care about is: >;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 > >I think I am just looking for the aa part, that tells me that the secondary >is slaving me. Yes, pretty much. The "aa" flag stands for "authoritative answer", meaning that the server has a zone of the correct name. (It doesn't necessarily mean that they're slaving the zone from your server - in theory, it could have a master zone of the same name, or it could be slaving from someone else's master zone of the same name.) >Now, in a past thread: ><http://archive.digitalpoint.com/FMPro?-db=listarch.fp5&-lay=web&-RecID=1264 >3149&-Format=/QDNS/archdetail.html&-Find> >I was told that: >dig soa +norecurse @dns2.intermag.com newgeo.com | grep flags:.*\ aa\ >*notice the space at the end, looks for "flags:" and " aa " on the same line >in the result. > >So if there is a result, I am good, if not, I am bad. > >Problem is, I think this slave is doing its job now, however, the grep is >reporting falsely and giving me no response. Any idea what I am doing wrong >here, or is it just that dig returns different, or perhaps pbi.net is >returning different data and I need to alter my grep? Take the "\ " off the end. The flags section ends with "aa;", not "aa " followed by some other flag. >I really don't know exactly what I am looking for here, one zone I know for >sure is being slaved gives me back: >;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 2 > >The other, the one in question gives me back: >;; flags: qr aa ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 "ra" stands for "recursion available". ns1.pbi.net doesn't offer recursion to the general public anymore (though it used to). >So to grep and look for <space>aa<space> seems correct, in that the first >one would return something, so I know it is ok, the second fails the grep >and tells me I need to talk to ns1.pbi.net. No, it's fine. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice Customer Support Specialist Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: Testing secondary is confusing me by Scott Haneda on Feb 6, 2004 at 12:09:48 am Re: Testing secondary is confusing me by pieter pieterse on Feb 6, 2004 at 12:20:27 am Re: Testing secondary is confusing me by Scott Haneda on Feb 6, 2004 at 12:29:11 am Re: Testing secondary is confusing me by Len Conrad on Feb 6, 2004 at 5:12:21 am Re: Testing secondary is confusing me by Men & Mice Support on Feb 6, 2004 at 9:06:40 am