Interpreting Sysylog errors

[reuben at spacelab.net]

Unfortunately, I gave you incorrect info in my original post.  The
domain should've neem ns2.signalcore.com

Thanks,
Reuben

In article <njQc4.48$193.2596 at burlma1-snr2>,
  Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote:
> In article <84vv0k$5ql$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <rhalper at my-deja.com>
wrote:
> >Can anyone tell me what the following syslog error indicates?  It
seems
> >to be unable to resolve the IP address of my nameserver into it's
name.
> >Here's the message:
> >
> >Jan  4 15:58:40 oak named[23392]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN)
on
> >ns2.signal.com?
>
> Some domain is delegated to ns2.signal.com (I wish the error message
said
> what query caused this call to findns()), and when your nameserver
tried to
> look up its address so it could query it, it got an NXDOMAIN (No such
name)
> error.  I just queried the primary server for the signal.com domain
and it
> confirmed that there's no such host:
>
> tools:~#286% dig ns2.signal.com a @ns.okdirect.com
>
> ; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> ns2.signal.com a @ns.okdirect.com
> ; (1 server found)
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 10
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 0, Auth: 1, Addit: 0
> ;; QUESTIONS:
> ;;	ns2.signal.com, type = A, class = IN
>
> ;; AUTHORITY RECORDS:
> signal.com.	86400	SOA	ns.okdirect.com.
namemaster.okdirect.com. (
> 			1	; serial
> 			10800	; refresh (3 hours)
> 			3600	; retry (1 hour)
> 			604800	; expire (7 days)
> 			86400 )	; minimum (1 day)
>
> ;; Total query time: 5357 msec
> ;; FROM: tools to SERVER: ns.okdirect.com  209.54.94.5
> ;; WHEN: Wed Jan  5 18:17:26 2000
> ;; MSG SIZE  sent: 32  rcvd: 101
>
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