Is this a problem?

[Mark Damrose]

"Beau E. Cox" <beau at beaucox.com> wrote in message
news:ap6f7g$90lg$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
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> Hi -
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> I just noticed the following lines my my syslog:
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> Oct 23 04:03:52 CATHY named[10893]: lame server resolving
> 'BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG' (in 'IANA.ORG'?): 192.0.34.126#53
> Oct 23 04:03:52 CATHY named[10893]: lame server resolving
> 'BLACKHOLE-2.IANA.ORG' (in 'IANA.ORG'?): 192.0.34.126#53
> Oct 23 04:03:52 CATHY named[10893]: lame server resolving
> 'BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG' (in 'IANA.ORG'?): 192.0.34.126#53
> Oct 23 04:03:54 CATHY named[10894]: lame server resolving
> 'BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG' (in 'IANA.ORG'?): 192.0.34.43#53
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> 192.0.34.43 is some internet mass marketer...

No 192.0.34.43 is one of IANA's servers.  It's just misconfigured at the
moment.

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> Can anyone tell me what this means?

The 2 servers 192.0.34.126 and 192.0.34.43 which are listed as being
authoritative sources for the domain iana.org, are not.

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> Is my newly installed bind 9.2.1 open for bad
> people to play with?

This is not an indication of a problem with your server.  It is just logging
problems it found with servers for other domains.

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> Aloha => Beau.
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