On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:10 PM, fqui nonez wrote:
> 2010/3/13 fqui nonez :
>> hello
>>
>> i founded messages on authlog of a OBSD-4.6, i have not seen it
>> before, and i was not able to find information at archives and google.
>>
>> Mar 9 02:20:25 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.main.ebayrtm.com IN ", got type "SOA"
>> Mar 9 02:47:32 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.uk.ebayrtm.com IN ", got type "SOA"
>> Mar 9 02:50:17 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.sg.ebayrtm.com IN ", got type "SOA"
>> Mar 9 02:52:03 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.au.ebayrtm.com IN ", got type "SOA"
>> Mar 9 02:53:27 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.ph.ebayrtm.com IN ", got type "SOA"
>> Mar 9 03:01:57 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.ph.ebayrtm.com IN ", got type "SOA"
>> Mar 9 03:09:55 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.ca.ebayrtm.com IN ", got type "SOA"
>>
>> Could someone please tell me what it means? I use konqueror and lynx
>> as web browsers.
It is a failing name lookup. Just like the following done with dig
from the command line:
$ dig +norecurse -t qw-we.com @m.root-servers.net
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> +norecurse -t qw-we.com @m.root-servers.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 59919
;; flags: qr; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 13, ADDITIONAL: 14
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;qw-we.com. IN
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.172800 IN NS k.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS h.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS e.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS i.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS f.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS m.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS l.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS j.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS a.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS g.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS d.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS c.gtld-servers.net.
com.172800 IN NS b.gtld-servers.net.
;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
a.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.5.6.30
b.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.33.14.30
c.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.26.92.30
d.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.31.80.30
e.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.12.94.30
f.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.35.51.30
g.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.42.93.30
h.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.54.112.30
i.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.43.172.30
j.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.48.79.30
k.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.52.178.30
l.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.41.162.30
m.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.55.83.30
a.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN 2001:503:a83e::2:30
;; Query time: 33 msec
;; SERVER: 202.12.27.33#53(202.12.27.33)
;; WHEN: Sun Mar 14 15:35:47 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 487
$ dig +norecurse -t qw-we.com @192.5.6.30
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> +norecurse -t qw-we.com @192.5.6.30
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 26083
;; flags: qr aa; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;qw-we.com. IN
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
com.900 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net.
nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1268577348 1800 900 604800 86400
;; Query time: 139 msec
;; SERVER: 192.5.6.30#53(192.5.6.30)
;; WHEN: Sun Mar 14 15:35:59 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 100
We ask for an record, but don't really get an answer, just a SOA
authoritiy section.
Adriaan
