From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Dec 15 15:40:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14086 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:40:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14079 for ; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:40:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06250; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA07246; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA00778; Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:40:21 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199812152340.PAA00778@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 15:40:21 -0800 In-Reply-To: Michael Moran "Strange message" (Dec 15, 11:52am) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Michael Moran , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange message Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Dec 15, 11:52am, Michael Moran wrote: } Subject: Strange message } } Anyone can tell me what is meant? } } Dec 15 11:39:42 veronet named[74]: Lame server on } '249.128/25.231.31.209.in-addr } .arpa' (in '128/25.231.31.209.in-addr.arpa'?): [209.31.231.129].53 } 'ns1.newthoug } ht.net': learnt (A=206.173.119.72,NS=206.173.119.72) It means that your name server was asking about 249.128/25.231.31.209.in-addr.arpa. The server at IP address 206.173.119.72 (tycho.concentric.net) told your server to send this query to ns1.newthought.net because ns1.newthought.net is supposed to be an authoritative server for the zone 128/25.231.31.209.in-addr.arpa, and the server at IP address 206.173.119.72 also told your server that the IP address of ns1.newthought.net is 209.31.231.129. When your server sent the query to 209.31.231.129, the response that it got indicated that the server at 209.31.231.129 is not authoritative for the zone 128/25.231.31.209.in-addr.arpa. This means that either tycho.concentric.net has the wrong server name for the zone 128/25.231.31.209.in-addr.arpa. The server should not be ns1.newthought.net, but something else. tycho.concentric.net sent your server the incorrect IP address for ns1.newthought.net, possibly because its cache picked up the incorrect address from another server. ns1.newthought.net is supposed to be authoritative for 128/25.231.31.209.in-addr.arpa but is somehow misconfigured. Your choices are to either contact the operators of the broken servers to let them know that they need to fix their problem, or to ignore this message and the possible failure of your server to find the answer to the query it is attempting to resolve. This should all be documented in the BIND book. Be glad that this long explanation isn't syslogged every time your name server encounters a broken server. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message