Question about URL being logged by resolver

[Ondřej Surý]

It means something in your network sent a query containing the literal URL below. The message is just misleading - the resolver tries to do QNAME minimization on it, it fails, switches to full name which ends with NXDOMAIN from root.

Ondrej
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> On 3. 11. 2023, at 23:30, J Doe <general at nativemethods.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On a Bind 9.18.19 server configured as a recursive resolver, I sometimes see URL's being noted in the log files.
> 
> One such example is:
> 
> 02-Nov-2023 23:32:19.435 lame-servers: info: success resolving 'https://app-measurement.com/sdk-exp/A' after disabling qname minimization due to 'ncache nxdomain'
> 
> This seems unusual to me because Bind usually notes the domain name it is attempting to resolve, not an URL.  In this particular case, I would expect to see a notation about "app-measurement.com" and not "http://etc".
> 
> What is the significance of logging the URL and why does this happen in only some cases ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - J
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