Help: bad referral error meaning?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> 
> Can someone tell me if this indicates a problem with foobar dns server? 
> 
> mydns: bad referral (3.148.219.207.in-addr.arpa !<
> *.219.207.in-addr.arpa) from [foobar's ip]
> 
> What exactly did foobar send to mydns? Looks like mydns refered to
> foobar for the reverse lookup for
> 207.219.148.3 .but got a wildcard back, can that be?

	People put all sorts of crap into the DNS.  You can't delgate
	using a wildcard and PSI should know better.

	Mark

; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> *.219.207.in-addr.arpa ns @sec2.dns.psi.ca +norec 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6557
;; flags: qr ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 2
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;	*.219.207.in-addr.arpa, type = NS, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
*.219.207.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN NS  pri1.dns.psi.ca.
*.219.207.in-addr.arpa.  1D IN NS  pri2.dns.psi.ca.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
pri1.dns.psi.ca.	9h31m1s IN A	154.11.136.2
pri2.dns.psi.ca.	11h15m44s IN A	154.11.145.2

;; Total query time: 303 msec
;; FROM: drugs.dv.isc.org to SERVER: sec2.dns.psi.ca  154.11.147.2
;; WHEN: Tue Oct  2 09:49:58 2001
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 40  rcvd: 120

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