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   From: barmar@alum.mit.edu   
      
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    David Schwartz  wrote:   
      
   > On Mar 23, 8:46 pm, EJP  wrote:   
   >   
   > > I'm looking into a problem whereby the domain name tigers.com.au appears   
   > > to map to 0.0.0.0. This is causing some problems and I'm wondering   
   > > whether it is actually allowed, and if so what it is intended to mean.   
   >   
   > Whether or not it's allowed is between you and whoever or whatever   
   > told you to use "tigers.com.au" for something.   
      
   That doesn't seem to be what tiger.com.au resolves to, though.  If he's   
   getting that address, something in his DNS is masking the real DNS of   
   the domain.   
      
    <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> tiger.com.au a   
   ; global options:  printcmd   
   ; Got answer:   
   ; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 11445   
   ; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0   
      
   ; QUESTION SECTION:   
   tiger.com.au.       IN A   
      
   ; ANSWER SECTION:   
   tiger.com.au.     86400 IN A  119.160.227.79   
      
   ; Query time: 375 msec   
   ; SERVER: 68.87.71.226#53(68.87.71.226)   
   ; WHEN: Wed Mar 25 20:40:13 2009   
   ; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 46   
      
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   Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu   
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