nslookup alpine-usa.com

[Ben Scott]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Frank DiPrete <fdiprete at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am not getting a response while trying to lookup alpine-usa.com

  When you say "not getting a response", please explain exactly what
you're doing, and what happens.  :)  What command are you running, or
what are you doing to test?  Are you getting an error message?  If so,
what does it say?  Or does the program you're using just sit there as
if it's working, but never finish?

  In general, the <alpine-usa.com.> zone looks okay.

  There is no A record associated with <alpine-usa.com.>.  There's
nothing technically wrong with that, but it's customary to give the IP
address of your web server.  That will let people type
"alpine-usa.com" into any web browser and still get your web site.
This won't cause timeouts or other errors, though.

  Details:

  I get two nameservers for the delegation from the GTLD parent zone
(<com.>).  Both appear to be hosted at the Road Runner ISP:

$ dig +short NS alpine-usa.com. @a.gtld-servers.net.
ns1.biz.rr.com.
ns2.biz.rr.com.

  Querying each of those, I get a response, but it appears there are
no A (address) records associated with <alpine-usa.com.>.  There are
NS (nameserver), SOA (start of authority), and MX (mail exchanger)
records, though.  Here's what I see:

$ dig +noall +ans ANY alpine-usa.com. @ns1.biz.rr.com.
alpine-usa.com.         86400   IN      MX      10 mail.alpine-usa.com.
alpine-usa.com.         86400   IN      MX      10 smtp.alpine-usa.com.
alpine-usa.com.         86400   IN      SOA     ns1.biz.rr.com.
dnsadmin.rr.com. 2006091250 3600 604800 3600 0
alpine-usa.com.         86400   IN      NS      ns1.biz.rr.com.
alpine-usa.com.         86400   IN      NS      ns2.biz.rr.com.
alpine-usa.com.         86400   IN      NS      dns4.rr.com.

  (That's what I get when I ask <ns1.biz.rr.com.>; I get the same from
<ns2.biz.rr.com.>.)

  There are some A records for various likely subdomains:

$ dig +noall +ans ANY www.alpine-usa.com. @ns2.biz.rr.com.
www.alpine-usa.com.     86400   IN      A       72.3.185.216
$ dig +noall +ans ANY smtp.alpine-usa.com. @ns2.biz.rr.com.
smtp.alpine-usa.com.    86400   IN      A       67.53.118.39
$ dig +noall +ans ANY mail.alpine-usa.com. @ns2.biz.rr.com.
mail.alpine-usa.com.    86400   IN      A       67.53.118.39

-- Ben