bad horizontal referral ?

[Jean-François Leroux]

Thanks for the explanation, Kevin. If I may ask, what means
'horizontal' in the message? I've had a look in my DNS & Bind book but
couldn't find anything about it...
And while I'm thinking of it, how can I know which server refers me to
a wrong address? Is this possible ?


2008/3/12, Kevin Darcy <kcd at chrysler.com>:
> Jean-François Leroux wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  > doing a trace with dig today I got a 'BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL'
>  > message, with the correct answer though.
>  >  What does this mean ?
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> Referrals should be "down" not "across". If you're resolving www.foo.com
>  iteratively and along the way a delegated nameserver for foo.com refers
>  you to blah.com, that's a useless referral because it doesn't get you
>  any closer to resolving the name.
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>  Dig probably got the correct answer because it gave up on the broken
>  nameserver and tried a different one.
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>             - Kevin
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