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rgmarcha
Asked: 2011-06-04 14:07:48 +0800 CST

dig behavior on RHEL6

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dig on RHEL6 has a different behavior than in RHEL5, related to the @server syntax:

root@rhel6# dig @some.dnsserver.com any some.example.com
dig: couldn't get address for 'some.dnsserver.com': not found

It seems it doesn't try to revolve the parameter for the specified dns server. Any idea why is that? Is it to avoid making another dns request?

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1 Answers

  1. This is normal behavior: If dig can't find the address of the nameserver you specified (using the nameservers listed in /etc/resolv.conf) it will tell you it "couldn't get address for" your requested server.

    Either you typo'd the DNS server name or your local DNS can't map the name to an IP -- Try specifying the nameserver by IP address instead?

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