[Pdns-users] Not authoritative for '' and '195.26.113.72.in-addr.arpa' ?

[bert hubert]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 01:56:31PM +0200, Marc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> PDNS is working perfectly here and therefor I haven't looked at the logfiles for a while. But today I looked into the logfiles for no reason, and found messages that I did not see the last time I checked the logfile:
> 
> Sep  5 13:51:11 server1 pdns[19681]: Not authoritative for '', sending servfail to 207.44.202.107 (recursion was desired)
> Sep  5 13:51:35 server1 pdns[19681]: Not authoritative for '195.26.113.72.in-addr.arpa', sending servfail to 66.98.152.55 (recursion was desired)
> 

> I think these messages are not related, but I was wondering what is
> causing this kind of requests. Especially the second one where something
> is trying to do a reverse lookup for an IP address that is not used by me.
> Why does it select my DNS server to try to resolve the reverse lookup?

Somebody has configured your nameserver as their recursor, most likely
207.44.202.107. Their problem, not yours.

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