BIND- MESSAGES - Late CNAME

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Joaquin J. Domens <jdomens at corp.terra.es> wrote:

> Hi,

> I having lots of this message in my logs since I upgraded to 8.3.3

> Jul 25 10:46:29 tdns3 named[12254]: late CNAME in answer section for
> ns1.datahost.com.au A from [139.130.4.5].53

> As I've seen in http://www.menandmice.com/docs/named_messages.htm
> there's no information about this message, and neither I've found in
> Google.

> It looks like the lack of response it's from the server outside not
> mine, but I would like to know if there's something special about this.

The zone "datahost.com.au." is broken in at least one aspect :
as one of the NS "ns1.datahost.com.au." is given, that is a CNAME
which is illegal.

> dig ns1.datahost.com.au

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ns1.datahost.com.au
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 1
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      ns1.datahost.com.au, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ns1.datahost.com.au.    56m27s IN CNAME  calisto.datahost.com.au.
calisto.datahost.com.au.  56m28s IN A  203.42.75.3

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
datahost.com.au.        56m28s IN NS    ns1.datahost.com.au.
datahost.com.au.        56m28s IN NS    calisto.datahost.com.au.
datahost.com.au.        56m28s IN NS    ns1.telstra.net.

So unless you are responsible for "datahost.com.au." it's not your
problem. Your bind just warns you about peculiar things it has 
encountered during work.

> Thanks in advance
> --
> Joaquin J. Domens
> Area de Aplicaciones
> Terra Networks



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