Please Help! Not sure what this is...

nitromax

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Every day I get an email from the server, that with a cable modem takes about 2 minutes to download, which is filled for miles with stuff like this:

Security Violations
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Sep 18 04:27:48 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (98.187.66.in-addr.arpa !& 118.98.187.66.in-addr.arpa) from [66.187.96.5].53
Sep 18 04:29:05 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (139.163.206.in-addr.arpa !& 254.139.163.206.in-addr.arpa) from [192.67.14.16].53
Sep 18 04:43:14 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (255.38.64.in-addr.arpa !& 89.255.38.64.in-addr.arpa) from [208.179.80.3].53
Sep 18 04:44:41 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (113.68.in-addr.arpa !& 55.113.68.in-addr.arpa) from [66.169.254.29].53
Sep 18 04:50:22 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (145.83.162.in-addr.arpa !& 254.145.83.162.in-addr.arpa) from [199.45.32.40].53
Sep 18 04:50:22 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (145.83.162.in-addr.arpa !& 254.145.83.162.in-addr.arpa) from [199.45.32.40].53
Sep 18 05:13:22 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (23.10.216.in-addr.arpa !& 100.23.10.216.in-addr.arpa) from [66.78.49.2].53
Sep 18 05:13:22 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (23.10.216.in-addr.arpa !& 100.23.10.216.in-addr.arpa) from [66.78.49.2].53
Sep 18 05:22:30 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (23.10.216.in-addr.arpa !& 150.23.10.216.in-addr.arpa) from [66.78.49.2].53
Sep 18 05:22:30 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (23.10.216.in-addr.arpa !& 150.23.10.216.in-addr.arpa) from [66.78.49.2].53
Sep 18 05:25:07 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (in-addr.arpa !& 140.222.61.in-addr.arpa) from [168.95.1.14].53
Sep 18 05:25:07 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (in-addr.arpa !& 140.222.61.in-addr.arpa) from [168.95.1.14].53
Sep 18 05:33:33 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (150.223.64.in-addr.arpa !& 160.150.223.64.in-addr.arpa) from [199.45.32.40].53
Sep 18 05:33:33 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (150.223.64.in-addr.arpa !& 160.150.223.64.in-addr.arpa) from [199.45.32.40].53
Sep 18 05:44:01 saturn named[24822]: bad referral (97.167.216.in-addr.arpa !& 169.97.167.216.in-addr.arpa) from [207.153.206.126].53



I am not sure where this stuff is coming from. Can anyone help? I looked in /etc/named.conf and none of that info is in there. I'm not real sure where else to look, and I'd like to fix this problem.