DNS error message

[André Pirard]

Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote:

>In article <7tvqt5$2hc$1 at carroll.library.ucla.edu>,
>Jamie Finestein <jfinestein at mednet.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>I get the following error message in my messages file:
>>
>>Oct 12 09:44:22 ns2 named-xfer[16696]: [149.142.194.60] not authoritative
>>for 173.142.149.in-addr.arpa, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount 1,
>>aucount 3
>>
>>I am running BIND 8.1.2 on my master and 2 secondary servers.  The unusual
>>thing is that I get this error message on only one of my two secondary
>>servers during the zone transfer.  I have checked the named.conf file on the
>>master and there is no record for that address.  So, I do not know where
>>that address is coming from.
>
>You need to check the named.conf file on ns2.  It should have something
>like:
>
>zone "173.142.149.in-addr.arpa" {
>  type slave;
>  masters { 149.142.194.60; }
>}

If that were missing, ns2 would never have queried 149.142.194.60.
What seems to be missing is a NS record for 149.142.194.60.

--- Query Name: 173.142.149.IN-ADDR.ARPA  Qtype: NS
Question:
  1 173.142.149.IN-ADDR.ARPA NS IN
Answer(s):
  1 173.142.149.IN-ADDR.ARPA NS IN 21571 neuromedia.neurobio.ucla.edu
  2 173.142.149.IN-ADDR.ARPA NS IN 21571 neurobionet.neurobio.ucla.edu
Additional:
  1 neuromedia.neurobio.ucla.edu A IN 43186 149.142.173.107
  2 neurobionet.neurobio.ucla.edu A IN 43189 149.142.173.100

André.