[Dnsmasq-discuss] What does this reply to 'host' mean?

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 04:10:31PM +0200, Geert Stappers via Dnsmasq-discuss wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 01:34:26PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have been moving some domains around on my hosting provider and for
> > one I'm getting the following rather strange response to a 'host'
> > command:-
> > 
> >     chris$ host www.jacquibennett.com
> >     www.jacquibennett.com is an alias for jacquibennett.com.
> >     jacquibennett.com has address 92.205.12.16
> >     Host jacquibennett.com not found: 2(SERVFAIL)
> > 
> > Is this just a DNS propagation oddity or have I misconfigured something?
> > 
> 
> $ host www.jacquibennett.com
> www.jacquibennett.com is an alias for jacquibennett.com.
> jacquibennett.com has address 92.205.12.16
> jacquibennett.com mail is handled by 0 sxb1plzcpnl489538.prod.sxb1.secureserver.net.
> $ 
> 
Thank you, so just a quirk of DNS propagation.

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Chris Green