[SpamCop-List] Re: [DNS] bad referral (spamcop.net !< bl.spamcop.net)

[Ellen]

"wbtem" <whybothertoemailme at webziek.nl> wrote in message
news:chusdb$nvh$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Lately I'm getting these messages in mij nameserver logs:
>
>
> Sep 11 13:36:42 masterofthenet named[10643]: bad referral (spamcop.net !<
> bl.spamcop.net) from [209.92.188.201].53
> Sep 11 13:37:54 masterofthenet named[10643]: bad referral (spamcop.net !<
> bl.spamcop.net) from [209.92.188.201].53

I think this is the answer to your question, from Julian:

>"Thanks for bringing this up.  We are migrating to a
>different dns server - rbldnsd.  It allows us to add some new features,
>but I think the problem is due to the lack of an NS record returned with
>the query.  We'll see what we can do about that (more complicated than it
>sounds)..
>
>In the meantime though, you could try upgrading bind or just disabling
>that message - it is not fatal, just a warning and in this case (and 99%
>of other cases) it does not indicate any real problem.
>
>Currently, only some of our mirrors are using the new system, so this
>may only show up sometimes - depending on which mirror your system decides
>to use.  But we will gradually be migrating the whole set over."


Ellen