wrong ans. name

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Aug 26 20:19:49 UTC 2003


"Duane J. Von Lanken" wrote:

> Several of my caching servers are getting this consistently in their
> syslogs.  I am running 8.3.4 on HPUX 11.00.  Do I need to do something
> to clean this up?  How?  Thanx
>
> Aug 26 15:45:37 ns1 named[724]: wrong ans. name (. !=
> 323136.323339.3531.313034.80hd8ef3368.webcfs00.com)
> Aug 26 15:45:43 ns1 named[724]: wrong ans. name (. !=
> 64.77656268616e636572.636f6d.80hc7f3a36c.webcfs00.com)
> Aug 26 15:45:39 ns1 named[724]: wrong ans. name (. !=
> 68.6d736e.636f6d.80hcf44b17c.webcfs00.com)
> Aug 26 15:45:46 ns1 named[724]: wrong ans. name (. !=
> 68.6d736e.636f6d.80hcf44b17c.webcfs00.com)

No, it's a problem with the nameservers for webcfs00.com. They are
answering *every* query they get authoritatively with a 10.*.*.* (i.e.
private, non-routable) address, and failing to copy the RD (Recursion
Desired) flag into their responses. Bad, bad, bad...


- Kevin




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