about " bad refferal " system log

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Aug 7 22:25:49 UTC 2001


jijunguk at dreamwiz.com wrote:

> I thank you for your answer :-)
>
> >It just means some nimrod was too lazy to create a separate 137.216.61.in-addr.arpa zone in their
> >nameserver. They're just throwing everything into in-addr.arpa and claiming authority for that whole
> >namespace. Fortunately, you're running a version of BIND that doesn't get confused by such idiocy.
>
> I'm very happy to hear that my Bind is so clever to overcome that idiocy.
>
> >That isn't a lot to go on. Could you be more specific about what problems you're having? You've checked
> >your nameserver logs, right?
>
> When I type "http://mydomain.com" in broswer, the browser shows my homepage sometimes ok, sometimes no. In case of no, broswer shows "http://???.msn.??.../dnserror.htm".
> So, I guess my dns setting has some problem.

What happens if you query your nameserver directly for that name, using a tool like "nslookup" or "dig"? Does it resolve correctly and consistently?

> In the report of "ndc stats" command, there are some error logs.

What error logs?

                                                                                                                        - Kevin





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