Interesting BIND error

Fri Feb 13 01:54:10 UTC 2004

Brian Wallingford wrote:

> Feb 12 16:25:07 ns1 named[3150]: socket.c:1100: unexpected error:

Hmm. A few weeks ago I started noticing some similiar messages that I 
had not ever seen before:

Jan 29 18:21:52 named[658]: socket.c:1100: unexpected error:
Jan 29 18:21:52 named[658]: internal_send: 210.22.158.126#39254: 
Connection reset by peer
Jan 29 18:21:53 named[658]: client 210.22.158.126#39254: error sending 
response: connection reset

On closer examination I could see that the remote client was attempting 
DDNS updates to a zone that server was auth for.

It started Jan 29 03:19:39 MDT and then mysteriously ended Jan 31 
11:06:11 MDT which I thought was a little odd. Usually someone sticks a 
domain name that they like (but have no real relationship to) into their 
Microsoft TCP/IP stack's domain name field and it tries to do it's 
Active Directory update thingy forever (we have 'clark.com' which is 
lots of fun). So once a client starts sending us updates, it's not 
likely to ever stop.

FWIW, only a small percentage of the updates were generating this error....

#  grep -c '210.22.158.126.*denied' messages.2
1375

#  grep -c socket.c messages.2
24