Search Again: Re: QDNS Logs From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 Time: 5:49:13 pm That's BIND's version of a 'lame delegation' log message. Here's what happened: - Your server queried a gTLD server about wbkids.com, and received in response a delegation pointing to 63.198.118.156. - Your server then queried 63.198.118.156 about wbkids.com and received, among other things, a set of NS records for the com zone. As it happens, the response was marked as authoritative, but since the zone itself has no NS records, the server substituted the nearest higher-level NS records that it had in cache. Note that BIND 8 and later would not give the response in question - BIND would refuse to load a zone that didn't have NS records of its own. Actually, given a couple of defining features, it looks like the zone may have been created using QuickDNS 3.x for classic Mac OS. Here's the response to a query sent by DNS Expert, so you can see what I mean: ____________________________________________________________________ Query: wbkids.com. Query type: Any record Recursive query: No Authoritative answer: Yes Query time: 95 ms. Server name: ns2.internetwebdesign.com. Answer: wbkids.com. 60 SOA 64.175.4.218.wbkids.com. mattwales.mattwales.com. 2001071601 ; serial 120 ; refresh (2 minutes) 120 ; retry (2 minutes) 120 ; expire (2 minutes) 60 ; minimum (1 minute) wbkids.com. 60 A 64.175.4.218 wbkids.com. 60 MX 10 mail.wbkids.com. wbkids.com. 60 MX 20 mail2.wbkids.com. Authority: com. 105721 NS a.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS g.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS h.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS c.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS i.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS b.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS d.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS l.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS f.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS j.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS k.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS e.gtld-servers.net. com. 105721 NS m.gtld-servers.net. Additional: mail.wbkids.com. 60 A 64.175.4.218 mail2.wbkids.com. 60 A 63.198.118.156 a.gtld-servers.net. 105720 A 192.5.6.30 g.gtld-servers.net. 105720 A 192.42.93.30 h.gtld-servers.net. 105720 A 192.54.112.30 c.gtld-servers.net. 105720 A 192.26.92.30 ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 7:30 PM -0600 1/22/02, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote: >What exactly does this mean? > >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.287 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.287 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.287 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 >22-Jan-2002 19:29:46.288 response-checks: info: bad referral (com !< >wbkids.com) from [63.198.118.156].53 > >jer (jer@mia.net) > >Bella Mia, Inc. >High Speed Wireless - www.dslone.com >Domain Registration - www.thednsplace.com >Web Hosting and Colocation - www.hostdrive.com >Nation Wide Dialup 5 years and running - www.mia.net > > *** Ask us about our "Multi-Burst" Product! *** > >"Quick man, cling tenacously to my buttocks" Powdered Toast Man to the >Pope

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