Bad refferal
Subba Rao
subb3 at attglobal.net
Wed Dec 8 15:05:39 UTC 1999
On 0, Mark_Andrews at iengines.com wrote:
>
> >
> > I found this in my syslog.
> >
> > Dec 6 08:56:18 mystar named[18206]: bad referral (. !< EDU)
> >
> > I have not queried for any EDU domain nor went to any EDU nameserver.
> > Any idea what this message means?
>
> Just because you have not explictity queried for a EDU domain does
> not mean the nameserver didn't need to.
>
> We fixed some bugs with detecting and reporting referral around
> BIND 8.2.1. The current BIND release in BIND 8.2.2-P5. The
> EDU server are almost never lame so I suspect you have a old BIND.
>
> See the following for security reasons to upgrade:
> http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security-19991108.html
>
> Mark
>
I have upgraded bind to 8.2.2 p5, and am still getting bad refferal messages.
Here the entries in syslog.
Dec 8 09:49:07 mystar named[5448]: bad referral (. !< edu)
Dec 8 09:49:07 mystar last message repeated 2 times
Dec 8 09:50:01 mystar named[5448]: bad referral (. !< MIL)
Dec 8 09:50:01 mystar last message repeated 5 times
Dec 8 09:50:14 mystar named[5448]: bad referral (in-addr.arpa !< 8.128.in-addr.arpa)
Dec 8 09:50:14 mystar last message repeated 8 times
Subba Rao
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