Querying DigitalOcean's name servers

Posted on March 7, 2014

I created a DNS entry for my domain, but when I query ns1.digitalocean.com directly, the query is refused. Why is that?

dig @NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM a starchy.n64088.org.

; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-rl.13207.22-P2-RedHat-9.9.3-7.P2.fc18 <<>> @NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM a starchy.n64088.org. ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 46220 ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;starchy.n64088.org. IN A

;; Query time: 68 msec ;; SERVER: 198.199.120.125#53(198.199.120.125) ;; WHEN: Fri Mar 07 11:30:54 EST 2014 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 47

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Rodrigo Avila

March 7, 2014

Hi! From here it’s not refusing: ; <<>> DiG 9.9.3-rpz2+rl.13214.22-P2-Ubuntu-1:9.9.3.dfsg.P2-4ubuntu1.1 <<>> @NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM a starchy.n64088.org. ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6765 ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;starchy.n64088.org. IN A ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: n64088.org. 1800 IN SOA NS1.DIGITALOCEAN.COM. hostmaster.n64088.org. 1394209508 3600 900 1209600 1800 ;; Query time: 259 msec ;; SERVER: 198.199.120.125#53(198.199.120.125) ;; WHEN: Fri Mar 07 14:42:21 BRT 2014 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 114 This A record is showing on Zone File section?