Re: NXDOMAIN

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

On Fri, 8 May 2009, rwagnes wrote:

> What exactly would cause the NXDOMAIN exception to be thrown?  This is my
> code:
>
> ZoneTransferIn xfr = ZoneTransferIn.newAXFR(zoneName, hostName, 53, null);
> List zone = xfr.run();
>
> org.xbill.DNS.ZoneTransferException: NXDOMAIN
>        at org.xbill.DNS.ZoneTransferIn.fail(ZoneTransferIn.java:320)
>        at org.xbill.DNS.ZoneTransferIn.doxfr(ZoneTransferIn.java:494)
>        at org.xbill.DNS.ZoneTransferIn.run(ZoneTransferIn.java:532)
>
> --zoneName is a valid domain controller..

I don't know what "domain controller" means, as it's not a DNS term. 
This exception means that the server returned an NXDOMAIN (name does not 
exist) error to the zone transfer request.

Brian