From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 16:34:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21149 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:34:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hecate.webcom.com (hecate.webcom.com [209.1.28.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21105 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from u@webcom.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hecate.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA22986 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:33:41 -0800 Received: from [199.183.207.100] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 10392078; Thu Nov 12 16:32 PST 1998 Message-Id: <364BA8B6.4FB4@webcom.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 19:34:14 -0800 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: info@boatbooks.com Subject: Error message from Apache/named Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been getting a message or two a day of the following type from a system (2.2.7S) running Apache 1.3.3 with named as a caching-only nameserver (primarily for reverse DNS for web logs): Nov 10 11:37:30 test httpd: gethostby*.gethostanswer: asked for "66.158.114.164.in-addr.arpa IN PTR", got type "SIG" When I do a reverse lookup manually on the above IP address, I get "no A record available" from nslookup, but dig -x shows a bunch of garbage characters. Does the above error mean anything more than that that the lookup failed? BTW, most of the bad lookups are for 164.114.xxx.xxx . -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message