Blair Trosper <blair.trosper@gmail.com> wrote:
Goes all the way up to the A root server before failing spectacularly.
That is an extremely weird response. Are you sure your queries are not being intercepted by a middlebox? What happens if you use dig +vc ? Do you get a similar round-trip time when pinging 8.8.8.8 to the one reported by dig?
Europa:~ blair$ dig +cd @8.8.8.8 google.com A
; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> +cd @8.8.8.8 google.com A ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 47332 ;; flags: qr rd ra cd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION: ;google.com. IN A
;; AUTHORITY SECTION: . 467 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2013050100 1800 900 604800 86400
;; Query time: 46 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Wed May 1 10:05:46 2013 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 104
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