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From: chytil@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Chytil Georg)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: bind 4.8.3 : malformed response - worry ?
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Date: 8 Feb 91 07:42:25 GMT
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I'm running a slightly adapted bind 4.8.3 on an Apollo DN3500 Domain/OS 10.2 .

Bind works just fine (maybe a bit slow, but this is probably due to the net), 
but every other day it comes up with a burst (20 or so) of messages like

Feb  8 08:29:44 vlsivie named[116]: Malformed response from 192.16.202.1
Feb  8 08:30:30 vlsivie named[116]: Malformed response from 192.48.96.2
Feb  8 08:31:14 vlsivie named[116]: Malformed response from 137.39.1.2
( 90% of these responses come from uunet.uu.net , some from mcsun.eu.net )

during which time lookups starting from root are painfully slow.
Besides this, is there any cause to worry about it ? 
What can lead to this behaviour ?

FYI : I'm running primary server for vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at. , 
      uunet.uu.net is a secondary (?) for at. All rootservers are at
      least 300ms away ...


						Georg
	
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