error in bind ver 8.2.2-5p

[Kevin Darcy]

It would usually mean that a server which supposed to be authoritative for
bidorbuy.com.au didn't know anything at all about some name in that domain, and
gave a referral back to com.au (i.e. further away from the target, therefore
not particularly useful).

I can't verify that that is the case here, since the problem doesn't appear to
exist any more. Maybe it was recently fixed.


- Kevin

Julie Xu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My bind log has error:
> Oct 13 12:22:12 tscc2 named[11790]: bad referral (com.au !< bidorbuy.com.AU)
> Oct 13 12:22:12 tscc2 last message repeated 4 times
>
> What this means?
>
> Any comments will be appreciated
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Julie
>
> Julie Xu
>
> Unix/Network administrator
> Information Technology and Communication
> University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
> Campbelltown NSW 2560
>
> Phone: 61 02 46203098
> email: j.xu at uws.edu.au