"bad referral" in logfile. What does that mean?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7rtmm5$dsp at news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>,
Kato  <kato2 at gmx.de> wrote:
>Hi, please help:
>
>"bad referral" in logfile. What does that mean?
>I think something is misconfigured?!
>
>Servername = Our servername
>Domainname = Our Domainname
>OtherComputer = Some other Computers in our Net.
>
>Logfile:
>Sep 17 17:21:47 Servername named[1110]: bad referral (Domainname !<
>OtherComputer.Domainname)
>Sep 17 17:23:47 Servername named[1110]: bad referral (Domainname !<
>OtherComputer.Domainname)
>....and so on....

The server for Domainname said that the OtherComputer.Domainname subdomain
was delegated to some other server.  But when Servername 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 Domainname domain, i.e. it
doesn't even think that the subdomain has been delegated.

So something is misconfigured.

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