topic Re: Lame server message in Operating System - HP-UX

Lame server message

Marten Post — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:12:51 GMT

Lately we are getting a lot of "Lame Server on" messages on the console.
Any idea why they apear and how to stop the messages from apearing on the console?
We have not changed anything on our HP9000 D380 10.20.

Re: Lame server message

Stefan Farrelly — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:16:49 GMT

I think these messages come from Bind (named - DNS). Are you running a named server on your D class ? They are possibly cause by your DNS server detecting problems with remote DNS server which yours is talking to. Not much you will be able to do about that. Does it say which server ? Check the syslog.log for more details.

Re: Lame server message

Robin Wakefield — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:33:16 GMT

A lame server is one that is advertised to have authoritative information about a domain, but doesn't. The message can most likely be ignored, and can be disabled by setting:

logging {
...
category lame-servers { null; };
...
};

in your named configuration file.

Rgds, Robin

Re: Lame server message

Marten Post — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:05:38 GMT

This is one of the messages I get:

Named[]: Lame server on ???234.58.58.192.in-addr.arpa??? (in ???58.58.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA????): [193.229.0.40].53 ???NS.KOLUMBUS.FI???: learnt (A=192.168.0.1,NS=192.31.80.32)

Can anyone explain the message?
And where can I find the configuration file for named?
I didn't install DNS myself so I need a litle help here.

thanks

Re: Lame server message

harry d brown jr — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:14:50 GMT

Your named configuration file should be in /etc/named. Robin explained it as a server that is responding to DNS requests, but isn't exactly responding like one - maybe giving bogus info.

harry

live free or die

Re: Lame server message

harry d brown jr — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:41:12 GMT

Marten,

Check this link out, its explained via anothers post:

http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/archive.php?category=83&question=90

Re: Lame server message

Wodisch — Mon, 22 Oct 2001 13:44:11 GMT

Hello Marten,

and if you are going to do some DNS work, get and read THE book about it: Paul Albitz & Cricket Liu: DNS and BIND, O'Reilly and Associates. And there is a web-page run by/for Cricket at MiceAndMen: http://www.miceandmen.com

HTH,
Wodisch