in-addr.arpa delegation

[Barry Margolin]

In article <19990624120619.7463.qmail at hotmail.com>,
John Tan  <d_name at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have an internal DNS setup acting as a root server for 10.x.x.x. I have 
>delegated one domain abc.com to the name servers xxx.abc.com and am trying 
>to delegate the reverse mapping as well.
>But I get the following message :
>
>Jun 24 19:40:57 <dns server> named[8096]: bad referral (10.in-addr.ARPA !< 
>4.201.10.in-addr.arpa)
>
>What does this mean ? I knwo it means a bad referral but how can I fix it. 
>Anyone know where there is a list of bind error messages that we can refer 
>to ? ( I can't seem to find it in DNS and Bind book, though there are a few 
>errors listed there. )

This means that the server that you delegated the 4.201.10.in-addr.arpa
subdomain to doesn't have this zone installed on it.  So when it received a
reverse lookup, it replied with the NS record for 10.in-addr.arpa.

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