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

Matus UHLAR - fantomas uhlar at fantomas.sk
Sun Oct 16 18:06:53 UTC 2022


On 16.10.22 13:34, 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?

apparently a temporarily problem. 
host without "-t" parameter looks up A, AAAA and MX records.
apparently in this case MX lookup failed.
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