REPOST: Bad Referral to net. from symantec.com. for www.symantec.com.

[Stanley Liu]

BIND 8.3.1 for NT.

My BIND log has been littered with the following message (sets of 13 in a row):

05-Feb-2002 17:01:11.000 bad referral (net !< symantec.com) from [198.6.49.111].53

And I can reproduce it by pointing a browser to URL www.symantec.com.  I noticed that (see the dig at the end of this post) www.symantec.com. is CNAME to www.symantec.d4p.net (and in turn CNAME to 1568.g.akamai.net).  So I roughly understand why it refers my nameserver to net.  But why there is an error in the log?  How do I stop logging this error?  Or is it something wrong with my nameserver?

Stanley Liu
stanley.liu at toyota.com.au 

dig in a  www.symantec.com. @198.6.49.5
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> in a www.symantec.com. @198.6.49.5 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 13
;; QUERY SECTION:
;; www.symantec.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.symantec.com. 1M IN CNAME www.symantec.d4p.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  A.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  G.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  H.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  C.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  I.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  B.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  D.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  L.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  F.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  J.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  K.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  E.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  M.GTLD-SERVERS.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
A.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.5.6.30
G.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.42.93.30
H.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.54.112.30
C.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.26.92.30
I.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.43.172.30
B.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.33.14.30
D.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.31.80.30
L.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.41.162.30
F.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.35.51.30
J.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  210.132.100.101
K.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  213.177.194.5
E.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.12.94.30
M.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  202.153.114.101

;; Total query time: 1000 msec
;; FROM: igsm038625 to SERVER: 198.6.49.5
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 05 17:23:14 2002
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 34  rcvd: 497