Hi everyone,

/var/log/messages says:-


Jun 19 05:17:48 shakti named[20003]: lame server resolving '242.212.149.202.ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.org' (in 'ipwhois.rfc-ignorant.ORG'?): 127.0.0.1#53
Jun 19 05:17:48 shakti named[20003]: lame server resolving 'rsginfotech.com' (in 'rsginfotech.com'?): 202.54.119.135#53


[root@shakti log]# grep "lame server resolving" messages | wc -l
49007
[root@shakti log]#


What urgent measures should I take?

Thanks in advance

No attack. Nothing urgent. The remote DNS just doesn't resolve the name while it should (being authoritative and all that). Turn off by
echo -en "logging {\n\tcategory lame-servers {null; };\n};\n" >> ${CONFDIR:=/etc}/named.conf &&\
/etc/init.d/named reload

BTW, did you search LQ for this? I'm sure we've handled this before.

Hello Unspawn,

Thanks for that.
Sorry for I have not searched lq before posting.
But still I do have one more question.
I googled too much and found that there is a lot of controversial stuff on the Internet about lame server...

My DNS was working fine and properly before that and I have not made any changes with any other daemons so misconfiguration is out of question altogether.

We can remove the option of logging in those errors but still I do have some confusion because of different views in different articles


anyway, thanks for your help

still I do have some confusion because of different views in different articles
Well, then post some article URI's I'd say.

Thanks for your time UnSpawn,


This is same as that of you told me:-

http://www.rackaid.com/resources/tips/ensim-bind.cfm

Here is one more thread

http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.p...fcignorant.org

And the confusion is in that why terminal junkie has blocked the addresses, and what role qmail or mail scanner has played.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor.../msg05927.html

Hey, Can you help me digest these things?


Thanks again

Hi again,

One more thing:-

what does that "127.0.0.1#53" thing in the logs mean?
Have I misconfigured something? (Which I dont seem to be as I have not made any changes since long back!)

And the confusion is in that why terminal junkie has blocked the addresses, and what role qmail or mail scanner has played.
Well, basically it boils down to more of the same if you ask me. Something local relies on resolving a domain or hostname for something to work (like RBL's). Something somewhere else should resolve things (or isn't there anymore to resolve things) and that's what the errors is causing. Instead of fixing it the majority opts for the ostrich policy. Nothing controversial I can see. So in short:

cause: remote resolver issue
level: informative
threat: none

Hi UnSpawn,

Thanks for the help, at last it got into this dumbhead .
Still, I need to know how come there are so many log entries that point out that 127.0.0.1 has querried so much.

I am going to stop logging lame server (Ostrich Policy as you :coined: it)

AFAIK because local apps use the local resolver. Localhost = 127.0.0.1.