"bad referral" error

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mon Mar 12 22:41:29 UTC 2001


	Also see http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html
	as you are running a nameserver with known security flaws unless
	your vendor has sent you a patch.

	Mark

> 
> Check the bind error messages at:
> http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/bind-messages.htm
> 
> Here is what it says.
> 
> bad referral (state.il.us !<  SOS.STATE.IL.US) 
> CATEGORY: response-checks 
> SEVERITY: info 
> PAGE: 
> FURTHER INFO: 
> 
> Indicates that while querying the SOS.STATE.IL.US name servers, your
> name server was referred
> to the state.il.us name servers.Since a referral should always point to
> name servers
> authoritative for descendant zones, this is an error.The name server
> that sent the referral is
> probably misconfigured, and not authoritative for the zone delegated to
> it. 
> 
> REFERENCES: 
> http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=420603975&fmt=text 
> http://www.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=526400973&fmt=text 
> 
> 
> Diego Balgera wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > do you know what this error mean? It appears in the syslog of my bind 8.1.2
> .
> > 
> > Mar 12 11:19:08 mi1odn01 named[17766]: bad referral (gprs !< mcc00DE.gprs)
> > 
> > Note: it is authoritative for the zone "bogus.mcc00DE.gprs" and uses a
> > forwarder dns which is authoritative for the zone "gprs".
> > 
> Bye.
> > Diego.
> 
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