No, the bad referral is coming from your own server.

The "query (cache) denied" message means that your server doesn't consider itself to be authoritative for the zone in question. Find out why.

Chris Buxton
Professional Services
Men & Mice

On Nov 17, 2008, at 6:51 AM, Scott Haneda wrote:

Look at some web stats, I saw a traffic drop over the weekend on a few sites. Looking into it, I am stumped.

Here are a few named log snips:
17-Nov-2008 05:47:26.582 security: info: client 203.162.4.198#40307: query (cache) 'nuclearrabbit.com/MX/IN' denied 17-Nov-2008 05:47:27.375 security: info: client 200.0.194.46#3632: query (cache) 'nuclearrabbit.com/MX/IN' denied 17-Nov-2008 05:47:28.170 security: info: client 200.0.194.78#38941: query (cache) 'nuclearrabbit.com/MX/IN' denied 17-Nov-2008 05:47:28.495 security: info: client 190.216.29.147#37276: query (cache) 'nuclearrabbit.com/MX/IN' denied 17-Nov-2008 05:47:28.659 security: info: client 200.0.194.46#31390: query (cache) 'nuclearrabbit.com/A/IN' denied 17-Nov-2008 05:47:28.982 security: info: client 200.0.194.78#51537: query (cache) 'nuclearrabbit.com/A/IN' denied 17-Nov-2008 05:47:29.465 security: info: client 190.216.29.147#37276: query (cache) 'nuclearrabbit.com/A/IN' denied 17-Nov-2008 05:47:32.647 security: info: client 203.162.4.198#48412: query (cache) 'nuclearrabbit.com/MX/IN' denied 17-Nov-2008 05:47:40.632 security: info: client 200.0.194.46#50599: query (cache) 'nuclearrabbit.com/A/IN' denied

What I have no idea, is why they are being denied?

I do get nothing back:
; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> nuclearrabbit.com MX @ns1.hostwizard.com
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 59741
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;nuclearrabbit.com.             IN      MX

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 64.84.37.14#53(64.84.37.14)
;; WHEN: Mon Nov 17 05:49:06 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 35


The domain appears to still be registered as far as I can tell, there is a secondary that should pick up this as well.

I do not know much about trace, but I get a bad referral error, is this at my seconary provider? What do I tell them?

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> nuclearrabbit.com +trace
;; global options:  printcmd
.                       292882  IN      NS      H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
.                       292882  IN      NS      A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 336 bytes from 64.84.0.18#53(64.84.0.18) in 1 ms

com.                    172800  IN      NS      L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      F.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      K.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      J.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      C.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      H.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      G.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      D.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      B.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      M.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      E.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
com.                    172800  IN      NS      I.GTLD-SERVERS.NET.
;; Received 495 bytes from 202.12.27.33#53(M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 101 ms

nuclearrabbit.com.      172800  IN      NS      ns1.hostwizard.com.
nuclearrabbit.com.      172800  IN      NS      ns1.nacio.com.
;; Received 120 bytes from 192.41.162.30#53(L.GTLD-SERVERS.NET) in 79 ms

nuclearrabbit.com.      172299  IN      NS      ns1.nacio.com.
nuclearrabbit.com.      172299  IN      NS      ns1.hostwizard.com.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 120 bytes from 64.84.37.14#53(ns1.hostwizard.com) in 1 ms

nuclearrabbit.com.      172299  IN      NS      ns1.nacio.com.
nuclearrabbit.com.      172299  IN      NS      ns1.hostwizard.com.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 120 bytes from 64.84.37.14#53(ns1.hostwizard.com) in 1 ms

nuclearrabbit.com.      172299  IN      NS      ns1.nacio.com.
nuclearrabbit.com.      172299  IN      NS      ns1.hostwizard.com.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 120 bytes from 64.84.37.14#53(ns1.hostwizard.com) in 1 ms

nuclearrabbit.com.      172299  IN      NS      ns1.nacio.com.
nuclearrabbit.com.      172299  IN      NS      ns1.hostwizard.com.
;; BAD (HORIZONTAL) REFERRAL
;; Received 120 bytes from 64.84.37.14#53(ns1.hostwizard.com) in 0 ms

com.                    123824  IN      NS      a.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      d.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      g.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      e.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      k.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      j.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      h.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      b.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      i.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      f.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      m.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      l.gtld-servers.net.
com.                    123824  IN      NS      c.gtld-servers.net.
;; BAD REFERRAL
;; Received 507 bytes from 64.84.0.18#53(ns1.nacio.com) in 1 ms

--
Scott

--
Scott

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