What is a "lame" server ??

[Simon Waters]

Matt Darcy wrote:
> 
> can you expalin the difference in configuring a slave and a master, I
> thought this was done using the zone configs ?

It is configured in the config file. Rather than "type master"
you set "type slave".

If you haven't set it up correctly, then you get the current
behaviour where the slave answers queries okay, but only because
it is asking the master as needed like any other DNS server, not
because it has made a local copy of the data.

Thus a DNS zone with a lame server will be less robust than one
without to failure of DNS servers.

If you've tried to set it up and made a mistake you should be
getting error messages, read the logs on both machines.