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Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:31:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: George Yobst <george@lincc.lincc.lib.or.us>
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Subject: Re: DNS Lame Server error
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Hm, your address doesn't resolve.  Nameserver down?  

On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, George Yobst wrote:

> I just changed from Linux to FreeBSD and my DNS is now puking out these
> errors when I telnet from my HP (it also takes quite a while to get
> a response from DNS before the telnet will start to connect):
> 
> Oct 24 12:46:11 lincc named[711]: Lame server on 'orbis.uoregon.
> edu.lib.or.us' (in 'lib.or.us'?): [204.123.2.18].53 'UUCP-GW-1.P
> A.DEC.com': learnt (A=192.36.148.17,NS=137.39.1.3) 
> 
> It seems to be adding 'lib.or.us' to everything here.  What gives?
> I have the DNS & Bind book, but am not able find an answer without
> digging to deeply as I'm very new with this larger picture (DNS). I'm
> not even sure it was working correctly with Linux (now that I think
> about it.  Any help appreciated! 

Looks like you left off a terminating . on one of your namedb entries.  

Let's see the first bit of your nameserver definition for the domain
lib.or.us.  I'm particulary interested in your SOA record for this domain.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major