bind lame servers

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

>>>>> "AMK" == Ashley M Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com> writes:

AMK> I have 1 DNS server that all of a sudden started spitting out
AMK> a lot of 'lame server' notices to syslog.

Your DNS server will log all sorts of stuff any time you ask it to
resolve something for you and the remote DNS server hosts have various
configuration problems.  Most DNS server admins these days are, well,
lacking in skills, so you'll see a lot of these.

You can add
  category lame-servers { null; };
to the logging section of your named.conf file to shut this up.

AMK> I'm not talking about one an hour...but more like several a
AMK> MINUTE.  It's like something or someone is hitting it over and
AMK> over again.

So something is asking your name server to resolve a lot of
addresses.  If this is surprising to you, I'd suggest trying to figure
out what it might be.

 - J<