Configuration questions

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> In article <37D59255.1F77378D at wuest.org>,
> Robert Wuest  <rwuest at wuest.org> wrote:
> >1. Is it ok for this server to listen on the internet?  I disabled that
> >by explicitly naming my eth and lo device address and not the ppp in a
> >listen-on option statement? Is this why I'm getting lot's of lame server
> >messages in my logs?
> 
> It sounds like there's no need for this server to listen on its PPP
> interface, so your configuration seems reasonable.  "Lame server" messages
> mean there's a problem with a remote server, not your server.
> 
	If your first forwarder is being flagged as lame (check
	the IP address in the messages) and you are running BIND
	8.2.1.  Apply the following patch.

	Mark

Index: src/bin/named/ns_forw.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /proj/cvs/isc/bind/src/bin/named/ns_forw.c,v
retrieving revision 8.61
diff -c -r8.61 ns_forw.c
*** ns_forw.c	1999/06/20 23:44:54	8.61
--- ns_forw.c	1999/07/03 00:56:49
***************
*** 205,211 ****
  	qp->q_msgsize = msglen;
  	memcpy(qp->q_msg, msg, qp->q_msglen = msglen);
  	hp = (HEADER *) qp->q_msg;
! 	hp->rd = (qp->q_addr[n].forwarder ? 1 : 0);
  	qp->q_addr[0].stime = tt;
  
  #ifdef SLAVE_FORWARD
--- 205,211 ----
  	qp->q_msgsize = msglen;
  	memcpy(qp->q_msg, msg, qp->q_msglen = msglen);
  	hp = (HEADER *) qp->q_msg;
! 	hp->rd = (qp->q_addr[0].forwarder ? 1 : 0);
  	qp->q_addr[0].stime = tt;
  
  #ifdef SLAVE_FORWARD
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