lame server resolving logs, hack?

Gerry Doris gdoris at rogers.com
Mon Mar 1 19:38:01 UTC 2004


On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:

> On Monday 01 March 2004 01:51 pm, José Nuno Neto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I run Bind on a hosting server, as a caching name server for local
> > services and authority for some domains.
> > Since last week I have /var/log/messages flooded with the records below.
> > What is 'lame server resolving'?
> > Is this a hack attack?
> > What can I do?
> <snip>
> 
> Did you google it?
> 
> Google with the following words: lame server 
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=lame+server&btnG=Google+Search
> 
> and look at the second hit.
> 
> Google with the words: lame server resolving message
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=lame+server+resolving+message&btnG=Google+Search
> 
> you get a lot of hits.
> 
> Always google, search archives first is a good practice before going into 
> mailing list.
> 
> Hope that helps.
> RDB
> 

You can turn it off by adding the following in /etc/named.conf.


logging {
	category	lame-servers	{null; };
};


-- 
Gerry

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