Topic: lame servers

[Damjan]

Hi,

I have e-smith server 5.1.2 installed and working very fine.

The problem which I see is in my /var/log/mesagess file. In fact I got a lot of mesagess like:

Apr 29 05:59:00 gateway named[1516]: Lame server on 'fisto.com' (in 'fisto.com'?): [209.1.28.46].53 'NS.WEBCOM.com'

There a mesagess with other addreses too.

Is there something wrong with e-smith DNS configuration?
What are those lame servers?

Regards

Damjan

[Urirama]

Hi,

An Altavista search gave among many many others
http://www.nominum.com/resources/faqs/bind-faqs.html#lameserver
http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/archive.php?question=383
http://www.burningvoid.com/iaq/lame-server.html

So it's very common and harmless and has nothing to do with the SME.

[Luke Drumm]

For anybody who's interested in a short and sweet explanation:

It's just the named service saying that that it had no luck looking up the IP address of the domain you requested.

Regards,
Luke

[Rich Lafferty]

That's not quite it -- it's named telling you that a parent has delegated a
domain to a server that doesn't think it's authoritative for the domain
(which is called a "lame delegation").

It *is* harmless, unless the lame server is in a domain you're responsible
for maintaining.

Cheers,

  -Rich

[Tony Zakula]

Ok, I am confused.  Could somebody clear this up for me?  I have been getting a lot of these this last week.  Like 40 a day -

smeserver2 /usr/sbin/named[1434]: lame server on 'main.cameocast.com' (in 'cameocast.com'?): 129.253.170.2#53

On the forum this was posted -

That's not quite it -- it's named telling you that a parent has delegated a
domain to a server that doesn't think it's authoritative for the domain
(which is called a "lame delegation").

It *is* harmless, unless the lame server is in a domain you're responsible
for maintaining.


So is this somebody on the outside trying to do something to me? I do not usually worry about this type of message but it seems like I have been bombarded from the same domain for a week now.  I would appreciate any light or words of explanation.  Thanks!

Tony Z