Bad Referral to net. from symantec.com. for www.symantec.com.

[Danny Mayer]

I'm not sure why you're getting this.  It works fine for me, using dig 9.2 
on NT,
dig 8.3.1 on NT, and using BIND 8.3.1 on NT as the server.

         Danny

At 01:26 AM 2/5/02, Stanley Liu wrote:
>BIND 8.3.1 for NT.
>
>My BIND log has been littered with the following message (sets of 13 in a 
>row):
>
>05-Feb-2002 17:01:11.000 bad referral (net !< symantec.com) from 
>[198.6.49.111].53
>
>And I can reproduce it by pointing a browser to URL www.symantec.com.  I 
>noticed that (see the dig at the end of this post) www.symantec.com. is 
>CNAME to www.symantec.d4p.net (and in turn CNAME to 
>1568.g.akamai.net).  So I roughly understand why it refers my nameserver 
>to net.  But why there is an error in the log?  How do I stop logging this 
>error?  Or is it something wrong with my nameserver?
>
>Stanley Liu
>stanley.liu at toyota.com.au
>
>dig in a  www.symantec.com. @198.6.49.5
>; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> in a www.symantec.com. @198.6.49.5
>; (1 server found)
>;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
>;; got answer:
>;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
>;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 13
>;; QUERY SECTION:
>;; www.symantec.com, type = A, class = IN
>
>;; ANSWER SECTION:
>www.symantec.com. 1M IN CNAME www.symantec.d4p.net.
>
>;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  A.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  G.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  H.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  C.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  I.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  B.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  D.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  L.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  F.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  J.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  K.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  E.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>net.   1d22h27m46s IN NS  M.GTLD-SERVERS.net.
>
>;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
>A.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.5.6.30
>G.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.42.93.30
>H.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.54.112.30
>C.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.26.92.30
>I.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.43.172.30
>B.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.33.14.30
>D.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.31.80.30
>L.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.41.162.30
>F.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.35.51.30
>J.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  210.132.100.101
>K.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  213.177.194.5
>E.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  192.12.94.30
>M.GTLD-SERVERS.net. 1d22h27m46s IN A  202.153.114.101
>
>;; Total query time: 1000 msec
>;; FROM: igsm038625 to SERVER: 198.6.49.5
>;; WHEN: Tue Feb 05 17:23:14 2002
>;; MSG SIZE  sent: 34  rcvd: 497
>