Error message I haven't seen before

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Wed Jun 28 17:39:18 UTC 2000


In article <D13A20749E46D2119FFD00104B70BAE03BC317 at www.jcllc.com>,
 <bdegregorio at JCLLC.COM> wrote:
>
>I have never seen this error message before and was wondering what it means.
>
>
>named[3644] Response from unexpected source ([207.48.132.3].53)
>named[3644] Response from unexpected source ([208.204.14.7].53)

It means that you sent a query to one address, but the reply came from a
different address.  This can happen with machines that have multiple NICs
if they're running a version of BIND older than 4.9.3.

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