RE: [cobalt-users] Strange named event on Raq4--webalizer2 related?

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, GPS wrote:

> >I believe this has been answered about 20 times in the past 3 months, and
> >I'm pretty sure you haven't searched the archives for "Lame server"
> >because you would have got the answer yourself if u had...
> >
> >I'll answer it anyway.
> >
> >Yes, it's very possible that after running webalizer that will happen,
> >especially because that look on the time - 04:04am, when cron.daily (and
> >webalizer) are running.
> >
> >Anyhow, for you, this message means anything, and you can safely ignore
> >it. It means that there are problems on the server you're accessing, and
> >not YOUR server...
> >
> >If you want to know what it means although you shouldn't care - look in
> >the archives :)
> >
> >- shimi.
> 
> Thanks Shimi. Great...another student of the Dan K list moderator school.
> Yes I searched the Achives and yes I know what "lame server" dns errors mean and
> am used to seeing a few dozen daily lame server errors. 
> 
> Perhaps I should have phrased the question as:
> 
> Has anyone received 1000's of lame server errors when Webalizer 2 runs?
> This is my first time using Webalizer 2 and I don't recall seeing such
> a large number of lame server errors when Webalizer 1.03 runs. I searched
> both the Cobalt list archives and my local database of thousands of Cobalt
> mails from 1999 through the present and could not find a message pertaining
> to this EXACT combo situation. 
> 
> In the future perhaps we can have our questions pre-screened via private
> e-mail to the wannabe list moderators before they are posted to the public
> list. 
> 
> 
> Tony

Sorry, but that's not what you asked... :)

I behaved like what Dan does on that specific subject because there's NO
way in the world you could have missed the answer for what a lame server
is and if it's ok. You can see from my previous posts that I really don't
do that.

In regards to your question here... there's no such thing "normal" a lame
server is a lame server, and if many people visit your site from lame
servers, then you have many lame servers, this is really nothing to do
with webalizer - it's named which produces this message.
As the internet grows, I believe there will be more and more of these,
simply because:
a) ISPs has more IPs to worry about, while they fire manpower
b) some companies simply doesn't care(tm)
c) your buisness grows - you have more visitors

that's all, i think.

- shimi.