bad referral and server crashes
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Aug 7 22:09:22 UTC 2001
Improper delegations are commonplace and yes, they do cause your nameserver to
waste resources. But unless you're right at the edge of your capacity anyway,
I don't think bad delegations would cause the server to crash. What kind of box
is this, and what kind of query volume does it get?
- Kevin
ralf.naegele at SHE.NET wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on my nameserver (bind 8.2.4) I get since yesterday tons of
> messages like this:
>
> Aug 7 09:07:16 zeder named[278]: bad referral \
> (237.192.in-addr.arpa !< 117.237.192.in-addr.arpa) from [192.237.125.2].53
> Aug 7 09:07:17 zeder named[278]: bad referral \
> (38.192.in-addr.arpa !< 1.38.192.in-addr.arpa) from [129.142.7.99].53
> Aug 7 09:07:18 zeder named[278]: bad referral \
> (113.207.IN-ADDR.ARPA !< 150.113.207.in-addr.arpa) from [165.113.61.37].53
> Aug 7 09:07:18 zeder named[278]: bad referral \
> (49.219.77.192.in-addr.arpa !< *.77.192.in-addr.arpa) from [38.8.50.2].53
> Aug 7 09:07:18 zeder named[278]: bad referral \
> (49.219.77.192.in-addr.arpa !< *.77.192.in-addr.arpa) from [38.8.50.2].53
>
> It seems to me, that the messages are coming near every second and I
> think that this uses almost all cpu and memory on the server until
> it crashes. Does anyone know from what these messages are coming?
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