What is a "lame" server ??

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a0doc0$6uo at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Matt Darcy <matthew at darcy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>I have a Bind 8.x master server holding master records.
>
>I have a slave server running bind 9.x
>
>When I start the bind 9 server It all looks ok but then comaplins of a lame
>server (see log) what does this mean ?
>
>berger is the bind 8 server alesi is the bind 9

A lame server is a server that's expected to be authoritative for a zone
(because the domain is delegated to it) but isn't answering
authoritatively when queried for names in that zone.

It looks to me like you don't have alesi configured as a slave for the
projecthugo.co.uk zone.

>
>Dec 26 23:27:42 jordan named[10337]: transfer of 'bathgirls.co.uk' from
>217.34.1
>94.217#53: end of transfer
>Dec 26 23:27:42 jordan named[10337]: transfer of 'bathjobs.com' from
>217.34.194.
>217#53: end of transfer
>Dec 26 23:27:42 jordan named[10337]: transfer of 'matthewdarcy.com' from
>217.34.
>194.217#53: end of transfer
>Dec 26 23:27:48 jordan named[10337]: lame server on
>'alesi.projecthugo.co.uk' (i
>n 'projecthugo.co.uk'?): 217.34.194.218#53
>Dec 26 23:27:48 jordan named[10337]: lame server on
>'berger.projecthugo.co.uk' (
>in 'projecthugo.co.uk'?): 217.34.194.218#53

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