On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:47:27PM IST, Graham Smith
<graham@crazysquirrel.com> incoherently babbled:
> by loads I mean 10 to 20 a minute for about an hour. They come in groups with
> an IP address being repeated 4 or 5 times then another one is tried. I am at
> a loss to figure out what is doing so many reverse look ups. Can someone help
> me find out what it is?
>
> Perhaps it's nothing but I'm interested to know. I'm running testing and the
> Bind server is only a local caching DNS with all external ports firewalled
> off. There are only two machines on the network so there shouldn't be that
> much traffic.
Lame servers are BIND's name for misconfigured nameservers.
To disregard the messages, follow the configuration details as discussed
in the bind manual [1]
Just add something like this in /etc/bind/named.conf.options:
logging {
category lame-servers { null; };
};
(untested)
[1] http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.1/Bv9ARM.ch06.html
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