Is there any way to get around the "DEFER" in the case of SERVFAIL? Can
I get it to just return an empty string? This infor I'm extracting isn't
critical. It's just stuff to help the spam filter. But I need it to not
get stuck with DEFER.
Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>I'm using dbdns to do a lookup of the NS record of IP addresses and I
>>have a proble. When there is no NS record I get this error.
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>When there is no NS record, you should get "no NS record", not "DEFER".
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>>headers command: lookup of "ns=136.79.149.in-addr.arpa" gave DEFER:
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>When I try that lookup using "dig", the result is SERVFAIL. That is a
>DNS error; you can't know whether there is an NS record or not.
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