Bad referral

[Barry Margolin]

In article <19991001181658.Q15579 at stahlw06.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de>,
Ralf Hildebrandt  <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> wrote:
>
>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.

I think you'll need to turn on named tracing to find out what's going on;
something is very strange in your configuration.  I checked all the servers
that these domains are delegated to, and none of them are lame (except that
I didn't get any response from ns2.internic.net, one of the servers for
gtld-servers.net).

Can you post your named.conf file?

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