BIND- MESSAGES - Late CNAME

Joaquin J. Domens jdomens at corp.terra.es
Thu Jul 25 11:16:58 UTC 2002


Yep, it is a minor problem as I was thinking .....and as I can see another
misconfiguration in Winblows.

Thanks  for your quick response Pete, Simon ;-)

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu wrote:

> Joaquin J. Domens <jdomens at corp.terra.es> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I having lots of this message in my logs since I upgraded to 8.3.3
>
> > Jul 25 10:46:29 tdns3 named[12254]: late CNAME in answer section for
> > ns1.datahost.com.au A from [139.130.4.5].53
>
> > As I've seen in http://www.menandmice.com/docs/named_messages.htm
> > there's no information about this message, and neither I've found in
> > Google.
>
> > It looks like the lack of response it's from the server outside not
> > mine, but I would like to know if there's something special about this.
>
> The zone "datahost.com.au." is broken in at least one aspect :
> as one of the NS "ns1.datahost.com.au." is given, that is a CNAME
> which is illegal.
>
> > dig ns1.datahost.com.au
>
> ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> ns1.datahost.com.au
> ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
> ;; got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 4
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 1
> ;; QUERY SECTION:
> ;;      ns1.datahost.com.au, type = A, class = IN
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> ns1.datahost.com.au.    56m27s IN CNAME  calisto.datahost.com.au.
> calisto.datahost.com.au.  56m28s IN A  203.42.75.3
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> datahost.com.au.        56m28s IN NS    ns1.datahost.com.au.
> datahost.com.au.        56m28s IN NS    calisto.datahost.com.au.
> datahost.com.au.        56m28s IN NS    ns1.telstra.net.
>
> So unless you are responsible for "datahost.com.au." it's not your
> problem. Your bind just warns you about peculiar things it has
> encountered during work.
>
> > Thanks in advance
> > --
> > Joaquin J. Domens
> > Area de Aplicaciones
> > Terra Networks
>
> --
> Peter Håkanson
>         IPSec  Sverige      ( At Gothenburg Riverside )
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Joaquin J. Domens
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