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WorldNIC broken DNS
[dan@li268-173 ~]$ dig xxx.com @ns1.worldnic.com +norec +aaonly
;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet.
;; Truncated, retrying in TCP mode.
; <<>> DiG 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6 <<>> xxx.com @ns1.worldnic.com +norec +aaonly
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 29624
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 13
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;xxx.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
xxx.com. 7200 IN CNAME xxx.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 518400 IN NS a.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS b.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS c.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS d.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS e.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS f.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS g.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS h.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS i.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS j.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS k.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS l.root-servers.net.
. 518400 IN NS m.root-servers.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 198.41.0.4
b.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 192.228.79.201
c.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 192.33.4.12
d.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 128.8.10.90
e.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 192.203.230.10
f.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 192.5.5.241
g.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 192.112.36.4
h.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 128.63.2.53
i.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 192.36.148.17
j.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 192.58.128.30
k.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 193.0.14.129
l.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 198.32.64.12
m.root-servers.net. 3600000 IN A 202.12.27.33
;; Query time: 157 msec
;; SERVER: 205.178.190.1#53(205.178.190.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 8 14:20:16 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 534
dan@dan-MacPro ~ $ dig xxx.com @ns1.worldnic.com
; <<>> DiG 9.7.3 <<>> xxx.com @ns1.worldnic.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 25301
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;xxx.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
xxx.com. 7200 IN CNAME xxx.eu-west-1.elb.amazonaws.com.
;; Query time: 150 msec
;; SERVER: 205.178.190.1#53(205.178.190.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Nov 8 14:38:23 2012
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 115
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dcarley commented Nov 8, 2012

Behaviour observed two years ago: http://serverfault.com/a/209065

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