Yesterday I wrote:
>
> syslogd logs messages from named in daemon.log. Is there any
> documentation available explaining these messages, and if so,
> where? I am particularly interested in messages like
>
> Malformed response from IP-number
>
> and
>
> Lame delegation to 'node' from 'node'
This morning I had the following reply from Ray Stell (stellr_at_vt.edu).
Thanks Ray!
Bjorn S. Nilsson (nilsson_at_nbi.dk)
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get the dns distribution from the author, Paul Vixie:
FTP Server: ftp.vix.com
Path: /pub/bind/testing/bind-4.9.3-BETA24.tar.gz
Size: 1596271 bytes
POSIX checksum: 1566874695 1596271
MD5 checksum: 130e4eea858c245aadef03e9bc43776e
down in there is a doc directory with everything you would ever
want to know about dns and named.
See RFC1713 which just hit the streets. It contains an explanation
of lame delegation as well as pointers to tools useful for debugging
this problem.
A lame delegation is an instance when a nameserver has been listed as
authoritative for a domain, but does not seem to be performing
authoritative service for that domain. That is, the nameserver appears
to be answering out of its cache instead of out of its data. Note that
even a server which is performing secondary service for a domain is
still an authoritative server, and should be returning authoritative
data.
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Ray Stell stellr_at_vt.edu (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC 28^D
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Bjorn S. Nilsson Email: Bjorn.S.Nilsson_at_nbi.dk
Niels Bohr Institute or just nilsson_at_nbi.dk
Blegdamsvej 17
DK-2100 Copenhagen Phone: +45 35 32 52 83
Denmark Fax: +45 31 42 10 16
Received on Tue Dec 12 1995 - 14:44:18 NZDT