analyzing a referral from root-servers

Farid Hamjavar hamjavar at unm.edu
Tue Nov 30 04:41:28 UTC 1999



bind 8.2.2-p5



Nov 29 21:16:50 ariel named[24378]: host name "CLINT'S\032COMP" IN
(response from [128.63.2.53] for [129.24.180.180]) is invalid - proceeding anyway


Above is one of many many lines we're getting and I
was wondering if anyone can help me understand it better.


h.root-servers.net who is 128.63.2.53 passing out
information that name for 129.24.180.180 is
"CLINT'S\032COMP".  


But 129.24.180.180 in our dns database has different 
name (all our names are valid and rfc952 compliant).  
We don't have "CLINT'S\032COMP".  Our secondary on the 
Internet does not pass this information either.


Why would root-name servers do this kind of things,
or am I missing something here?

Thanks,
Farid





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