named and SpamAssassin

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dbe8mt$1lct$1 at sf1.isc.org>, Chris <cpollock at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> Being a new user to named I didn't realize that named will attempt to
> resolve url's that are in the spam message or I would assume in any messa=
> ge
> that has a url included in it.  In a spam message this would result in th=
> e
> below most of the time I assume:

It's not named doing this, it's your mail program.  Named will try to 
resolve any names that a client application asks it to.


> Jul 17 11:49:21 cpollock named[10429]: FORMERR resolving
> 'love-walker.com/NS/IN': 212.118.243.118#53
> 
> What does the /NS/IN stand for?

NS means it's querying for a NameServer record, and IN means INternet 
class (just about everything is in this class, so you can pretty much 
ignore it).

So someone was trying to look up the nameservers for the love-walker.com 
domain.  It's pretty unusual for applications to look up NS records 
explicitly, it mostly comes from troubleshooting utilities.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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