Don't understand message ...

Jeffery Richards [2667] jrichard at mda.ca
Tue Feb 15 18:55:31 UTC 2000


> 
> > Can someone explain what this message means that I'm getting in my logs:
> > 
> >    15-Feb-2000 17:02:58.361 default: info: sysquery: findns error (3)
> >                                            on abc.def.domain.ca?
> > 
> > It's always for the two nameservers in a subdomain of ours, and they're
> > MS type NT-based nameservers (everything else is BIND/Unix).  The error
> > message is in the Unix master nameserver error log.
> > 
> > Thanks kindly in advance.
> > 
> > Also is there a reference someplace of all the error messages and what
> > they mean?  I do have the O'Reilly book, but you have to kind of hunt
> > about and they aren't collected together nicely.

> 
> www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/bind-messages.htm.
> 

Thanks for the great reference.  :)

Now one last question ...

In the reference it refers to NXDOMAIN and SERVFAIL as two possible
variations of the error.  In my message it says "(3)".  How do I figure
out which of those two items is "3"?

Many thanks again!

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