strange messages

[Simon Waters]

penelope at cotse.net wrote:
> 
> Solaris 2.6, BIND 8.2.3REL
> 
> found these in /var/adm/messages this morning:
> 
> Jan  3 02:05:31 ddnmail named[149]: bad referral (126.165.188.200.in-
> addr.arpa !< 8\003200\007in-addr\004arpa\000\000\012\000\001\192\022\000\002
> \000\001\000\000\220h\000\022\011BLACKHOLE-1\004IANA\003ORG) from
> [200.188.161.3].53

dig @dns.unisinos.br 126.165.188.200.in-addr.arpa    

Seems to give an inappropriate response - if your not the admin
for it, it is more to ignore.

The errors look suspiciously like the error handling leaves a
little to be desired, in contrast BIND 9.2 doesn't seem
flustered by "dig 126.165.188.200.in-addr.arpa PTR" dig just
returns SERVFAIL, although I can't guarantee it's asking exactly
the same query of the same servers.