strange logs

Michael Sharp ms at probsd.org
Sun Jun 27 01:11:59 UTC 2004


> Your domains list dns.secondary.org (66.98.244.118) as a nameserver;
> as this is quite close to the address logged, possibly secondary.org
> have changed their config.  Maybe you should ask them.
>
>> But my question is, what is that host looking for? And why consistently
>> every 3 hrs for the past few weeks?
>
> It's trying to copy your zones, presumably because it's set up to
> be a slave server for them.  Three hours (10800 seconds) is the
> refresh time in your SOA record.

Heh, Imagine my embarrassment when I discovered that you are right! 
Thanks Ronan! Now I have an excuse for my wife in spending more time with
my beloved FreeBSD.. and can now point to this incident as losing my
assessment skills thereby screwing up her domain.

Michael



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