bad horizontal referral ?
Jean-François Leroux
leroux.jeanfrancois at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 03:15:51 UTC 2008
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 ?
> >
> >
> >
>
> 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.
>
> Dig probably got the correct answer because it gave up on the broken
> nameserver and tried a different one.
>
>
>
> - Kevin
>
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>
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