Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Chris,
> 
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 12:28:23PM +0000, Chris Dennis wrote:
>> My server's syslog is filling up with errors from named like this (sorry 
>> about the wrapping)
> 
> Is it because you have enabled a uribl in spamassassin which is
> passing everything that looks like a hostname in the body of the
> mails to your resolvers?
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 
Good thought, but no -- it still happens with SpamAssassin turned off.
And it happens when I'm looking at web pages as well as doing email. 
The following errors coincided with a perfectly successful visit to 
Ebuyer's web page:
named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 'static.ebuyer.com/AAAA/IN': 195.74.96.20#53
named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 'static.ebuyer.com/A/IN': 195.74.96.34#53
named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 'static.ebuyer.com/A/IN': 195.74.96.20#53
named[13605]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 
'static.ebuyer.com/A/IN': 195.74.96.173#53
named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 'static.ebuyer.com/A/IN': 195.74.96.35#53
named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 
'www-google-analytics.l.google.com/AAAA/IN': 195.74.96.34#53
gloria named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 
'www-google-analytics.l.google.com/AAAA/IN': 195.74.96.35#53
named[13605]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 
'www-google-analytics.l.google.com/AAAA/IN': 195.74.96.173#53
I even get this:
named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 'a.iana-servers.net/A/IN': 195.74.96.34#53
Presumably there's nothing wrong with that machine.
Running 'host' or 'dig' from the command line works fine, but causes 
messages in the log.  For example, 'dig @gloria bbc.co.uk' (where gloria 
is the name of my server, the one with the errors), gives the correct 
results, but sends this to gloria's log:
named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 'bbc.co.uk/A/IN': 195.74.96.34#53 
named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 'bbc.co.uk/A/IN': 195.74.96.35#53 
gloria named[13605]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 
'bbc.co.uk/A/IN': 195.74.96.173#53
gloria named[13605]: FORMERR resolving 'bbc.co.uk/A/IN': 195.74.96.20#53
cheers
Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK