Re: [cobalt-users] lame server

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Anyone can add
> any name server on the Internet to their domains record and if the
> administrator of that name server is not notified or is not willing
> to handle the zone the result will be a lame server message in your
> servers log anytime a lookup is conducted for that domain. Seeing
> your DNS servers name listed as a lame server means that someone
> somewhere has it listed as authoritive for their domain and you
> either didn't correctly configure your server to support it or they
> never bothered to tell you.

Or they stopped buying a service from you but still point to your
servers.  It turns out that about 300 domains are pointed to our servers
that we are no longer under contract for.

The way I'm going to solve the problem (as soon as I make sure none of
our own systems point to the servers in question for recursive DNS
service), is to turn off recursive DNS on our servers, so anything
pointing to our servers that we do NOT host will get a "no such domain"
error <smile>.  Good way to get back at 'em <smile, again>.

Jeff
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Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nobaloney.net
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