<div dir="ltr">Thank you.<br><br>So it's not my responsibility to resolve the problem, right?<div><br></div><div style>The point is that, sometimes, I can't resolve an address because of this lame servers, and dig (for example) fails.<br>
</div><div style><br></div><div style>Is it possible?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/1/8 Shane Kerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shane@isc.org" target="_blank">shane@isc.org</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Daniele,<br>
<br>
On Tuesday, 2013-01-08 09:49:57 +0100,<br>
<div class="im">Daniele <<a href="mailto:d.imbrogino@gmail.com">d.imbrogino@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all.<br>
><br>
> Sometimes I can't resolve some addresses and, in the logs, I can find<br>
> the message in the title:<br>
> lame-servers: error (FORMERR) resolving [something]<br>
> (where `something` is the address I'm trying to resolve).<br>
><br>
> What does it means?<br>
<br>
</div>When acting as a recursive resolver, BIND 9 follows the chain of<br>
delegation from the root, contacting name servers identified for each<br>
domain on the way.<br>
<br>
In this case, one of those name servers returned a packet that BIND 9<br>
did not like for some reason - a FORMat ERRor. The offending server is<br>
marked as "lame" since it cannot answer queries for the domain in<br>
question.<br>
<br>
The message should also include the IP address of the server that it is<br>
going to at the end of the line.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> And how can I resolve this problem?<br>
<br>
</div>In theory, you could try contacting the administrator of the server at<br>
that IP address, and letting her know that there is some technical<br>
problem so she can resolve it.<br>
<br>
In practice, this is a worthless message and you should disable it in<br>
named.conf:<br>
<br>
logging {<br>
category lame-servers { null; };<br>
};<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
A couple of questions to everyone on the list...<br>
<br>
1. Should ISC change the default logging for lame servers to disabled?<br>
<br>
2. Are there other usually worthless default log messages we should<br>
disable?<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
--<br>
Shane<br>
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