[TriLUG] DNS problems

[Brian Henning]

Hi Folks!
   We just registered a domain in the .com.mx TLD.  Wahoo.  Here's the 
problem:

Our current domestic web host provides our DNS for our 
strutmasters.com.mx domain name, and is properly configured:

% dig www.strutmasters.com.mx @ns5.esosoft.net
--snip--
;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.strutmasters.com.mx. 43200  IN      CNAME   strutmasters.com.mx.
strutmasters.com.mx.    43200   IN      A       161.58.166.59
--snip--

However, if I do a top-down dig of www.strutmasters.com.mx, I get:

% dig www.strutmasters.com.mx
--snip--
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10002
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.strutmasters.com.mx.       IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.mx.                 465     IN      SOA     a.ns.mx. 
hostmaster.nic.mx. 446764 3600 300 604800 1800
--snip--

(but if I dig for just strutmasters.com.mx, I get the correct authority 
section:
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
strutmasters.com.mx.    41836   IN      NS      ns5.esosoft.net.
strutmasters.com.mx.    41836   IN      NS      ns6.esosoft.net.
strutmasters.com.mx.    41836   IN      NS      ns7.esosoft.net.
)


That smells to me (a complete novice in the DNS world) like the .com.mx 
TLD authority (a.ns.mx) is misconfigured and doesn't realize that 
*.strutmasters.com.mx should fall to the same authority as 
strutmasters.com.mx.  But like I said, I'm a complete DNS novice, so I'm 
not sure.  Clearly our EsoSoft DNS is correctly set up.  Should I be 
complaining to nic.mx?

I really shouldn't have to bother with anyone but EsoSoft if I wanted to 
add CNAMEs under the strutmasters.com.mx domain, right?

Thanks,
~Brian


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Brian A. Henning
strutmasters.com
336.597.2397x238
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