9.7.0-P1 annoyance: "DNS format error"

David Forrest drf at maplepark.com
Thu Mar 18 21:03:56 UTC 2010


On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just upgraded bind on my mail server from 9.6.2 to 9.7.0-P1,
> and now I'm getting a flood of these in my syslog:
>
> DNS format error from 218.10.19.172#53 resolving hisfield.ru/NS for client 
> 137.146.28.72#22500: invalid response
>
> with various IP's and record types.  Most of these are spam sites
> I'll bet.  I checked the Bv9ARM.pdf for new syslog categories and
> found a new one, which I set to null in an attempt to shut these
> messages up:
>
> category query-errors    { null; };
>
> Still they come.  I checked this mailing list and googled; what do
> I do to silence this?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
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Actually this log message comes from the "category resolver"
Try category resolver { null; };


-- 
David Forrest 
St. Louis, Missouri



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