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Subject: Re: Lame Server
To: rickg@nwpros.com (Rick Gray)
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:14:08 -0500 (CDT)
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> I have recently installed TCPwrappers. In the log file I see lots of "lame
> server" messages. Is this normal? So far today I count 14 such messages. I
> do understand that this has nothing to with me--I think--and I can just
> ignore them. Is this right?
> 
> Just curious. ;-)
> ************************************************
> Rick Gray                                              
> Director of Internet Services
> Network Pros, Inc. 
> rickg@nwpros.com 
> (713)780-5900
> 
> "It is a good day to die." ----Klingon Philosophy
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Lame server is most likely a DNS error coming from named/bind...

It means that a server which was supposed to have an authoritative answer
to a query returned a nonauthoritative answer.

In general it is safe to ignore - unless its one of your own zones :-)

(But we all run DOC, etc, right?)

... JG