[96288] in RedHat Linux List
Re: named - some questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Godfrey Nix)
Mon Oct 26 08:22:44 1998
From: "Godfrey Nix" <g.nix@emnet.co.uk>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 13:11:09 +0000
Reply-to: g.nix@emnet.co.uk
In-reply-to: <199810261253.HAA19926@shell.suntrix.com>
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Hello there,
I guess that you have set your machine up with networking and have given it
the name "my.domain.net". That is not right unless you are actually a part of
the real (yes there is one) domain called "domain.net"
What is happening is the root servers (a.root-servers.net, b.root-servers.net
and so on) are being asked about my.domain.net but the name servers for
domain.net do not know anything about my.domain.net
If you are running a machine (or small network) that does not have a real domain
name registered, then you should probably stay away from running named, and
just use the resolver files instead: -
in /etc/hosts put the ip number and name of each machine on your network;
set the nameserver operation to use "files, dns" so that it looks in the file
before it asks nameservers;
I'm sorry but I dont know how to run these in the linuxconf, as I have just started
with RedHat, but I have been running over 200 domains for well over 2 years now.
For more information about nameserver operation, see the O'reilly book called
"DNS and BIND" by Albitz and Liu.
Hope this helps,
At 04:30 AM 10/26/98 , you wrote:
>hi all,
>I was looking thru my logs today and found these lines
>
>Oct 26 01:51:55 my named[11629]: Lame server on 'my.domain.net' (in
>'domain.NET'?): [192.5.5.241].53 'F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET'
>Oct 26 01:51:55 my named[11629]: Lame server on 'my.domain.net' (in
>'domain.NET'?): [192.112.36.4].53 'G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET'
>Oct 26 01:51:55 my named[11629]: Lame server on 'my.domain.net' (in
>'domain.NET'?): [128.9.0.107].53 'B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET'
>
>Could someone explain to me what these lines mean?
>
>Thanks in advance
>- sze
>
Godfrey N Nix C.Eng MBCS B.ScTech(Hons)
Network Operations Manager
East Midlands Network Ltd (emnet)
phone 0115 956 8260
visit http://www.emnet.co.uk
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