bad zone transfer request

[Barry Margolin]

In article <c7durv$1tih$1 at sf1.isc.org>, bizbox <bizbox at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> hi ,
>      i have been receiving this on my bind log lately
> 
> May 06 17:02:42.257 xfer-out: info: client 65.2.121.121.1083: bad zone 
> transfer request: 'domain.com/IN': non-authoritative zone (NOTAUTH)
> 
> using a tcpdump this is wat i observed:
> 
> 17:02:15.179594 ns.dns.com.domain > 65.2.121.121.4929:  18261 1/2/2 
> (169) (DF)
> 17:02:42.231689 65.2.121.121.1083 > ns.dns.com.domain:  24576 SOA? 
> domain.com. (32)
> 17:02:42.231931 ns.dns.com.domain > 65.2.121.121.1083:  24576 1/4/4 
> SOA[|domain] (DF)
> 17:02:42.257073 65.2.121.121.1083 > ns.dns.com.domain:  16384 [1n] 
> Type251? domain.com. SOA[|domain]
> 
> 
> any idea wat is happening?is the client connecting having some 
> misconfiguration??kindly shed some light.thanks

It's hard to tell which is misconfigured.  The error means that the 
client is trying to transfer the domain.com zone from your server, but 
the server isn't authoritative for the zone.  Is the server supposed to 
be authoritative for this zone?  If it is, then you need to investigate 
why it isn't (there should be warning messages in the log when you load 
the zone file).  If it's not, you need to figure out why the client is 
trying to transfer the zone from it.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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