What does error (acl) mean?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Mar 28 16:07:02 UTC 2000


In article <20000328111930.K2694 at stahlw06.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de>,
Ralf Hildebrandt  <R.Hildebrandt at tu-bs.de> wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 10:04:13PM +0200, Ulrich Wisser wrote:
>
>> 23-Mar-2000 10:42:48.684 security: notice: unapproved AXFR from 
>> [62.156.153.47].54864 for 0.8.25.194.in-addr.arpa" (not auth)
>
>62.156.153.47 is not authorized to transfer the zone

No.  "(not auth)" does not mean "not authorized".  It means "I'm not
authoritative"; only an authoritative nameserver allows zone transfers.
If the client weren't authorized due to not being in the allow-transfer
access list, "(acl)" would be in the log message.

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