bad referral

[Bill Moseley]

At 08:04 PM 06/26/00 GMT, Barry Margolin wrote:
>>  bad referral (AMAZON.com !< www.amazon.com)

>It's probably a Cisco Distributed Director.  You can configure A and SOA
>records on them, but they don't have NS records on them.
>
>They've always had some problems implementing the DNS protocol fully.
>However, the problems don't impact the queries they're designed to support,
>so it's not usually a problem.  For instance, there's no reason for you to
>ask it explicitly for NS records.  When you're trying to connect to
>www.amazon.com, you should ask it for the A record.

Hum.  Are you saying the "bad referral (AMAZON.com !< www.amazon.com)"
message should only happen if I'm doing an NS RR lookup?  But the log
message was a result of a Netscape lookup request, which I'd assume would
be A RR lookups.

Anyway, I'm stil curious:  what is the process that bind is going through
to generate the "bad referral (AMAZON.com !< www.amazon.com)" message?

Thanks very much for the help,

BTW -- I though I was at a page that had bind error messages explained, but
could nt' find it again.  Anyone have that URL?

Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley at hank.org