Re: named complaining about lame servers when resolving

[Jacob Anawalt]

Malcolm Ferguson wrote:

Hi,

I've tried to configure bind on my Woody box as a caching DNS server 
for a segment of the network.  However, after mistyping an IP address 
that  I was trying to resolve elsewhere I'm now getting lots of 
messages in the log file complaining about a lame server.  Have I 
misconfigured named, or is this an error I can ignore?  If the latter, 
how do I make the problem go away - restart the daemon?

Bind 9.1 (bind9_1:9.2.1-2.woody.1_i386)

Error message (repeated over and over):

Sep 22 17:12:00 ns1 named[12680]: lame server resolving 
'75.1.5.198.in-addr.arpa' (in '1.5.198.in-addr.arpa'?): 198.6.1.161#53

Are you recieving SMTP or other external traffic with a service that may 
be trying to resolve IP addresses to names? The IP 198.5.1.75 belongs in 
a block assigned to UUNET Technologies, Inc. but doesn't appear to have 
a reverse dns record available. It also doesn't respond to ping's. If 
you know you don't want to deal with that address, you could drop all 
packets to/from it with iptables.

--
Jacob
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