What does "update failed foo.com 2" mean ?

[Kevin Darcy]

Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:

> l> [...] there was only that domain's NS record in my cache, while no
> l> A record of that domain's name server, in other words, these A
> l> record expired before the NS record did.
> l> [...] next time when a name which belongs to that domain got
> l> resolved, [...] the named forwarded this request to the root server.
> l> The root server replied with a package including two NS record and
> l> one A record . Then [...] the error "update failed foo.com 2"
> l> appeared. We couldn't resolve all those names belongs to that domain
> l> until the NS record got expired either.
>
> This sounds very much like the scenario given in the description of one
> particular BIND bug at
> <URL:http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/bugtraq/20000112082807-15140-qmail@cr-yp-to>.

So, are you suggesting that the original poster submit a bug report, or are
you just heckling?


- Kevin