On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 3:10 PM, fqui nonez <fquinon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/3/13 fqui nonez <fquinon...@gmail.com>:
>> 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 AAAA", got type "SOA"
>> Mar  9 02:47:32 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.uk.ebayrtm.com IN AAAA", got type "SOA"
>> Mar  9 02:50:17 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.sg.ebayrtm.com IN AAAA", got type "SOA"
>> Mar  9 02:52:03 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.au.ebayrtm.com IN AAAA", got type "SOA"
>> Mar  9 02:53:27 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.ph.ebayrtm.com IN AAAA", got type "SOA"
>> Mar  9 03:01:57 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.ph.ebayrtm.com IN AAAA", got type "SOA"
>> Mar  9 03:09:55 OpenBSD kdeinit: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for
>> "srx.ca.ebayrtm.com IN AAAA", 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 AAAA qw-we.com @m.root-servers.net

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> +norecurse -t AAAA 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      AAAA

;; 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      AAAA    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 AAAA qw-we.com @192.5.6.30

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> +norecurse -t AAAA 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      AAAA

;; 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 AAAA record, but don't really get an answer, just a SOA
authoritiy section.

Adriaan

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