"bad referrals" at midnight

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Aug 16 20:59:02 UTC 2001


In article <9lhabl$f4a at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
John Oliver  <john.oliver at hosting.com> wrote:
>Every midnight, my nameserver (bind 8.2.3-REL) logs several dozen "bad
>referrals".  I'm curious as to why...

One of your client machines is probably running a cron job at midnight that
does lots of DNS lookups.  Perhaps it's processing web server access logs
and translating IP addresses into hostnames.

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