Lame server message

[Marten Post]

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.

[Stefan Farrelly]

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.

[Robin Wakefield]

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

[Marten Post]

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

[harry d brown jr]

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

[harry d brown jr]

Marten,

Check this link out, its explained via anothers post:

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

[Wodisch]

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