How to Produce "Invalid RR Type" Messages?

Barry Finkel b19141 at achilles.ctd.anl.gov
Thu May 31 16:27:23 UTC 2001


I wrote:
>> 
>> I am seeing lots of messages such as these in our BIND syslog files:
>> 
>>      May 29 07:48:40 dns2.anl.gov named[140]: invalid RR type 'MX'
>>        in authority section (name = 'nvl.army.mil')
>>        from [130.114.200.6].53
>>      May 29 07:48:40 dns2.anl.gov named[140]:
>>        invalid RR type 'A' in authority section (name = 'nvl.army.mil')
>>        from [130.114.200.6].53

Thor Kottelin <thor at anta.net> replied:
> There's a brief explanation available at
> <URL:http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/bind-messages.html#idx_i>.

The explanation there says, "All of these messages indicate a flaw in 
the implementation (not the configuration) of the remote name server."

The Army hides the version of their DNS server, so I have no idea what
they are running.  My question now is this - If the Army is running
BIND (8.x or 9.x), is there any way for them to have the errors I am
seeing?  
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