named[7335]: MAXQUERIES exceeded, possible data loop inresolving

[Kevin Darcy]

Shiva Kumar wrote:

> hi
>
> We are using BIND 8.3.4 on a Linux box. In
> /var/log/messages file I
> see a lot of messages of type,
>
> Dec 18 15:40:47 ns3 named[7335]: MAXQUERIES exceeded,
> possible data loop in resolving (dchealth.com)
> Dec 18 15:40:47 ns3 named[7335]: MAXQUERIES exceeded,
> possible data loop in resolving (komputeralif.com)
> Dec 18 15:40:47 ns3 named[7335]: MAXQUERIES exceeded,
> possible data loop in resolving (sartorius-india.com)
> Dec 18 15:40:49 ns3 named[7335]: MAXQUERIES exceeded,
> possible data loop in resolving
> (inbound.landmarkgroupco.com.criticalpath.net)
> Dec 18 15:40:50 ns3 named[7335]: MAXQUERIES exceeded,
> possible data loop in resolving (mail.aumsoft.com)
> Dec 18 15:40:51 ns3 named[7335]: MAXQUERIES exceeded,
> possible data loop in resolving (calicutnet.com)
> Dec 18 15:40:55 ns3 named[7335]: MAXQUERIES exceeded,
> possible data loop in resolving (indophil.com.ph)
>
> How can this problem be fixed?

Upgrade to BIND 9. It doesn't have this error message.

:-)


- Kevin