dns newbie - lame server

[Brian Yeomans]

Hello Friend,

   From DNS and BIND 2nd edition page 140

    "A parent name server is delegating a subdomain to a child name server,
and the child name server is not authoritative for the subdomain."

A root named server is saying for this domain foo.com query  that
nameserver.  When that nameserver is queried it has no information
regarding foo.com

For documentation I suggest two resources

1) DNS and BIND 3rd edition published by O'Reilly & Associates
2) Bind Operations Guide (BOG) found at
http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/BIND/docs/index.phtml

Said Nurhussein wrote:
Hello,

> I'm new to dns and would like your help in understanding what the
> following
> error means, whether it is  useful to have on (see lots of msgs like it
> in Solaris system messages file) , and how is it turned on/off:
>
> -------------------------
> Jun 22 13:57:48 ibis named[15488]: Lame server on 'ireland.fedstats.gov'
> (in 'FE
> DSTATS.gov'?): [198.6.1.82].53 'AUTH02.NS.UU.NET': learnt
> (A=198.41.0.10,NS=192.
> 5.5.241)
> -----------------------------
>
> Also do you recommend any good dns documentation / tutorial site
> for a beginner?
>
> Thanks!
> --Said.
> -

--
Brian Yeomans
Systems Adminisatrator
MindSpring Enterprises
yeomans at mindspring.net