bad horizontal referral ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <fraodu$23q8$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Jean-Francois Leroux" <leroux.jeanfrancois at gmail.com> wrote:

> The zone, in my example, is called myzone.com. Private zone is
> private.myzone.com.

What's the REAL zone?  How do you expect us to tell you what's wrong if 
we can't look at the data?  You said this is a public zone, so we should 
be able to query your servers and tell you what's wrong.

> 
> 2008/3/13, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu>:
> > In article <fr96i6$1bt6$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> >
> >  "Jean-Francois Leroux" <leroux.jeanfrancois at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  > Ok, I understand. Thanks for the explanation.
> >  >
> >  > Now, here's my problem. I have two dns servers in a public zone (which
> >  > I'm testing), and when I issue a dig myzone.com @myserver1.myzone.com
> >  > (or myserver2) +nsserach +trace, I always get this message. Could it
> >  > be that there's a problem with my setup? As far as I understand bind,
> >  > it should be ok, the second one being slave of the first one. They're
> >  > on the same level though, since both are slaves of a single master in
> >  > the private zone. Is this a problem?
> >
> >
> > What's the zone?
> >
> >
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > 2008/3/12, Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com>:
> >
> > > > Jean-Francois Leroux wrote:
> >  > >  > Thanks for the explanation, Kevin. If I may ask, what means
> >  > >  > 'horizontal' in the message? I've had a look in my DNS & Bind book 
> >  > >  > but
> >  > >  > couldn't find anything about it...
> >  > >  > And while I'm thinking of it, how can I know which server refers me 
> >  > >  > to
> >  > >  > a wrong address? Is this possible ?
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > 2008/3/12, Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com>:
> >  > >  >
> >
> > > >  >> Jean-Francois Leroux wrote:
> >  > >  >>  > Hi,
> >  > >  >>  > doing a trace with dig today I got a 'BAD (HORIZONTAL) 
> >  > >  >>  > REFERRAL'
> >  > >  >>  > message, with the correct answer though.
> >  > >  >>  >  What does this mean ?
> >  > >  >>  >
> >  > >  >>  >
> >  > >  >>  >
> >  > >  >>
> >  > >  >> Referrals should be "down" not "across". If you're resolving 
> >  > >  >> www.foo.com
> >  > >  >>  iteratively and along the way a delegated nameserver for foo.com 
> >  > >  >>  refers
> >  > >  >>  you to blah.com, that's a useless referral because it doesn't get 
> >  > >  >>  you
> >  > >  >>  any closer to resolving the name.
> >  > >  >>
> >  > >  >>  Dig probably got the correct answer because it gave up on the 
> >  > >  >>  broken
> >  > >  >>  nameserver and tried a different one.
> >  > >  >>
> >  > >
> >  > > "Horizontal" means at the same level of the hierarchy. The DNS 
> >  > > namespace
> >  > >  is often viewed as being tree-like, with the "root" at the top and 
> >  > >  each
> >  > >  level of subdomain extending downwards. If a referral is "across" 
> >  > >  rather
> >  > >  than "down", it's "horizontal" instead of "vertical".
> >  > >
> >  > >  So many prepositions, so little time...
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > >       - Kevin
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >  Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> >  Arlington, MA
> >  *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
> >
> >

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***