[squid-users] Issue when connecting to apple APN

[Antony Stone]

On Monday 24 October 2016 at 11:36:34, Antony Stone wrote:

> On Monday 24 October 2016 at 11:27:17, Alaa Hassan Barqawi wrote:
> > Dears,
> > I am facing issue in connecting with apple APN gateway.push.apple.com :
> > 2195 The name cannot be resolved although I am using google DNS servers
> > and it throws an error Unable to determine IP address from host name
> > gateway.push.apple.com The DNS server returned:
> > No DNS records
> 
> There is no A (or AAAA) record, but it is a CNAME:
> 
> $ dig gateway.push.apple.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-rpz2+rl005.12-P1 <<>> gateway.push.apple.com
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4722
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 9, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;gateway.push.apple.com.                IN      A
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> gateway.push.apple.com. 193     IN      CNAME   gateway.push-
> apple.com.akadns.net.
> gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.129.25
> gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.134.21
> gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.135.152
> gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.135.149
> gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.134.150
> gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.136.184
> gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.137.150
> gateway.push-apple.com.akadns.net. 60 IN A      17.188.142.26
> 
> ;; Query time: 19 msec
> ;; SERVER: 80.68.80.24#53(80.68.80.24)
> ;; WHEN: Mon Oct 24 10:35:09 2016
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 215
> 
> Are you using your own DNS server, or someone else's?

I apologise for not noticing "I am using Google DNS servers".

However, sending the above query to 8.8.8.8 gives me precisely the same 
result.


Antony.

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