Nameserver help

kshazad86 · 04-15-2011, 08:23 AM

I'm running a whm/cpanel server and the my server logs are constantly showing the following message:

Quote:

named[8943]: unexpected RCODE (SERVFAIL) resolving 'www.feedsubmitter.com/A/IN': 64.207.129.18#53

Here's the thing...I'm not even hosting the above domain, so why is it even trying to resolve this?

Can anyone help?

bathory · 04-15-2011, 08:48 AM

Hi and welcome to LQ,

What services are you running on this box?
Could be that a service (like a mail server) tries to resolve that domain and get a SERVFAIL from the remote dns

kshazad86 · 04-15-2011, 01:21 PM

I'm running ftp server, mail server & mysql server on CentOS
Not sure how to go about fixing this, its driving me mad as the logs keep filling up with the same error message.

kshazad86 · 04-15-2011, 02:47 PM

I've managed to remove the messages appearing from the logs by adding "category lame-servers { null; };" to named.conf

Is this a permanent fix?

bathory · 04-15-2011, 03:52 PM

Yes it is a permanent solution. Mostly SERVAIL comes from lame servers.

Regards