Bad referral

[Ralf Hildebrandt]

Am 01.10.1999 um 11:57:37 -0400 schrieb Wayne Vigeant folgendes:
> We're running Bind 8.2.1 and starting to see at least one or two
> bad referral messages a day in our log files. Here's a sample:
> Sep 29 15:19:57 ns1 named[32521]: bad referral (com !< msnbc.COM)
> Sep 29 20:57:29 ns1 named[32521]: bad referral (dec.com !< bb.DEC.COM)
> Sep 29 21:11:44 ns1 named[32521]: bad referral (net !< GTLD-SERVERS.net)
> Is there some way to find out what causes these or figure out where they
> are coming from?

The server for (.com|.dec.com|.net) said that the
(msnbc.COM|bb.DEC.COM|GTLD-SERVERS.net) subdomain was delegated to
some other server.  But when ns1 queried that other server for
something in the subdomain, it said the name doesn't exist, and
returned a referral NS record back to the (.com|.dec.com|.net) domain,
i.e. it doesn't even think that the subdomain has been delegated. 
 
So something is misconfigured.
 
-- 
Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
"One smaller motivation which, in part, stems from altruism is
Microsoft-bashing."            - Vinod Valloppillil (Microsoft)


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