Bad refferal

[Subba Rao]

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


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