Re: back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

On 2/15/2013 12:19 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 03:02:48PM -0800,
>   Joe Touch <[e-mail]> wrote
>   a message of 16 lines which said:
>
>> By popular request, I've restored the DNS calculator function as an
>> operational service.
>
> Why no delegation from postel.org? It is not really DNS if you have to
> use an explicit name server.

I don't follow your logic.

FYI, postel.org entries are hosted on a "hidden master" DNS server 
inside the postel.org domain on a research host. The public masters for 
that domain are hosted elsewhere on production machines.

The response you got below is because the public masters hadn't caught 
up. I'm checking on why that hasn't happened, but in the meantime (as 
per the web page) you can go directly to the hidden master:

dig @dns.postel.org ANY 3.4.add.calc.postel.org

Joe

>
> % dig @128.9.160.161 ANY 3.4.add.calc.postel.org
>
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> @128.9.160.161 ANY 3.4.add.calc.postel.org
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 30695
> ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
>
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags: do; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;3.4.add.calc.postel.org.	IN	ANY
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> postel.org.		15	IN	SOA	dns.postel.org. touch.postel.org. 2013021402 60 30 1209600 15
>
> ;; Query time: 195 msec
> ;; SERVER: 128.9.160.161#53(128.9.160.161)
> ;; WHEN: Fri Feb 15 09:19:33 2013
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 98
>