dns issues

not necessarily linux, but more of a 'general unix dns' thing:


Im having a problem of sorts with dns at a place where I cannot control
the dns servers (believed to be winNT or win2000).

I've done alot of research trying to figure out what the problem is and I
believe I have the answer. Im pretty much just looking for a "yeah, thats
the problem (from experience)" or "nope , thats completely wrong"


scenario:

an internal dns server doing dns for all internal clients. an all
windows shop except for our 2 sco boxen (SCO_SV hostname 3.2 5.0.6 i386).
using an outside dns server, I can query the given domain name, however, I
get their outside IP address, not the inside one (which we need). I can
do a nslookup on mail.domainname.com no problem, but on domainname.com I
get non-existent host/domain.


from 2 sco boxen, I do a nslookup for a domain name:

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ads@domain:/u/ads>nslookup
Default Server: dns.domainname.com
Address: 192.168.1.16

> domainname.com
Server: dns.domainname.com
Address: 192.168.1.16

*** dns.domainname.com can't find domainname.com: Non-existent host/domain
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however, the admin of the dns servers swears that from all her win boxen
this works fine. so I do more research.

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ads@domain:/u/ads>nslookup
Default Server: dns.domainname.com
Address: 192.168.1.16

> set querytype=any
> domainname.com
Server: dns.domainname.com
Address: 192.168.1.16

domainname.com     nameserver = dns.domainname.com
domainname.com
        origin = dns.domainname.com
        mail addr = (root)
        serial = 97
        refresh = 3600 (1H)
        retry   = 600 (10M)
        expire  = 86400 (1D)
        minimum ttl = 3600 (1H)
domainname.com     record type 65281, interpreted as:
?.                      0S IN 65281     \#(     ; unknown RR type
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 02 58 00 00 00 02 ; ...........X....
c0 a8 01 10 c0 a8 01 05 )                       ; ........
dns.domainname.com     internet address = 192.168.1.16

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(some whitespace from above was removed to make it lookpretty)

the interesting bit, I think, is the 'unknown RR type' and 'record type
65281' parts. more research resulted in:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/network/support/trblshoot/dnstshot.asp
and
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b164176


basic summary being that the dns servers are using wins (proprietary
record in the MS dns stuff) and suggesting that you turn it off.

Would it be a fair statement to say that the wins dns stuff is causing the
problems?

Thanks for any insights,
David



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