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General IPv6 Topics => IPv6 on Linux & BSD & Mac => Topic started by: bombcar on February 07, 2010, 10:53:40 AM

Title: FORMERR resolving AAAA addresses?
Post by: bombcar on February 07, 2010, 10:53:40 AM
I run a caching BIND which also is my domain's DNS.

I keep seeing things like:

Feb  7 09:46:14 mail named[4612]: FORMERR resolving 'hub.shop.ebay.com/AAAA/IN': 2001:470:20::2#53
Feb  7 09:46:14 mail named[4612]: FORMERR resolving 'hub.ebay.com/AAAA/IN': 2001:470:20::2#53
Feb  7 09:46:14 mail named[4612]: FORMERR resolving 'antiques.shop.ebay.com/AAAA/IN': 2001:470:20::2#53
Feb  7 09:46:14 mail named[4612]: FORMERR resolving 'art.shop.ebay.com/AAAA/IN': 2001:470:20::2#53
Feb  7 09:46:14 mail named[4612]: FORMERR resolving 'books.shop.ebay.com/AAAA/IN': 2001:470:20::2#53
Feb  7 09:46:14 mail named[4612]: FORMERR resolving 'business.shop.ebay.com/AAAA/IN': 2001:470:20::2#53
Feb  7 09:46:14 mail named[4612]: FORMERR resolving 'photography.shop.ebay.com/AAAA/IN': 2001:470:20::2#53
Feb  7 09:46:14 mail named[4612]: FORMERR resolving 'cell-phones.shop.ebay.com/AAAA/IN': 2001:470:20::2#53


in the logs. Can I fix that? Can I at least stop it logging them?
Title: Re: FORMERR resolving AAAA addresses?
Post by: jimb on February 07, 2010, 06:51:36 PM
These result from misconfiguration of remote name servers. Your name server is reporting these.  Not sure if you can specifically squelch these things in your log.  But have a look at the ARM section for logging:  http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#id2553006 (http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#id2553006)

You could always use the logging config/syslog to shunt BIND logs to a different file so it doesn't "pollute" your messages file.