Search Again: Re: QDNS Log Questions From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, January 12, 2001 Time: 10:52:42 pm At 9:27 AM -0700 1/12/01, Warren Michelsen wrote: >1) When reviewing your QDNS logs, what things do you look for? > >"not allowed to perform transfer to" That's when someone requests a zone transfer, but you have configured restrictions and their address isn't listed. >"Failed to lookup SOA info for domain" This one occurs when your server is configured as secondary for a domain, but can't contact the primary. >"Domain 'blah.blah' has expired" That's bad. It means the primary server has been unreachable for so long that the secondary server gives up on the domain and stops serving it. >"Unable to open file 'blah.blah.hosts'" This generally indicates that a file for an entry in Secondary Domains isn't present. Which means that, perhaps, your server hasn't yet downloaded the domain from the primary server. >Are the above the important ones? Are there others? The 2nd and 3rd are important. Also, keep an eye out for the following: Multiple CNAMES or CNAME and data at "some.domain.name" Record "some.domain.name" outside domain - ignored -> These indicate a problem in your zone file. Error 37 in creating file spec for domain "some.zone" -> This indicates some problem with the filename for a secondary zone. Domain "some.zone" not loaded Insufficient memory to load domain "some.zone" Unable to allocate TCP listener Unable to allocate UDP stream -> These indicate a problem with basic server operation, such as insufficient memory or another DNS server running on the machine. >2) What is the source or cause of "A delegation with no NS records from..."? The server has received a corrupted response from another DNS server. Similar to "lame delegation" messages. >3) What causes "Attempting to unload nonexisting domain..."? Ignore this. It happens on the primary server whenever you save a change to the domain. >I can ignore "lame delegation...", can't I? Yes, unless you want to notify the zone's owner that there's a problem. >Anyone have any QDNS log wisdom to impart? You can find explanations of all of these messages in the user manual. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!

Messages In This Thread: QDNS Log Questions by Warren Michelsen on Jan 12, 2001 at 8:29:04 am Re: QDNS Log Questions by Men & Mice Support on Jan 12, 2001 at 10:52:42 pm