8.2.1 - two questions

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> At 18:11 01.07.1999 GMT, you wrote:
> >In article <3.0.6.32.19990701171316.009a49f0 at hpwp3.technodat.co.at>,
> >Christian Krackowizer  <kra1 at technodat.co.at> wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I've compiled 8.2.1 on AIX 4.1.5 machine ibmwp1. The image is running on
> >>machine ibmwp2 - see log
> >>
> >>Jul  1 16:31:37 ibmwp2 named[8942]: starting.  named 8.2.1 Thu Jul  1
> >>15:49:39 MET_DST 1999
> >>root at ibmwp1.technodat.co.at:/home/bind-8.2.1/src/bin/named
> >>Jul  1 16:31:37 ibmwp2 named[8942]: directory . is world-writable
> >>Jul  1 16:31:37 ibmwp2 named[8942]: slave zone "technodat.de" (IN) loaded
> >>(serial 1999050502)
> >>Jul  1 16:31:37 ibmwp2 named[8942]: hint zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> >>Jul  1 16:31:37 ibmwp2 named[8942]: listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo0)
> >>Jul  1 16:31:37 ibmwp2 named[8942]: listening on [193.100.177.45].53 (en0)
> >>Jul  1 16:31:37 ibmwp2 named[8942]: Forwarding source address is
> [0.0.0.0].53
> >>Jul  1 16:31:37 ibmwp2 named[4848]: Ready to answer queries.
> >>Jul  1 16:43:07 ibmwp2 named[4848]: Lame server on 'ibmwp1.technodat.co.at'
> >>(in 'technodat.co.AT'?): [193.101.111.20].53
> >>
> >>there a two things which I cannot handle:
> >>line 2 'directory . is world-writable'. well, the config files for named
> >>are in /etc which is not world writeable. image is in /usr/sbin, which also
> >>isn't WR. ?
> >
> >What directory were you in when you started named?  That's the "." directory
> .
> 
> this is a possible answer as I did a simple 'ndc stop' and 'ndc start' out
> from /tmp. Now, I did it again out of /etc and this message wasn't logged
> again.

	Which is why you should have a directory statement refering to an
	absolute path in the options block not 'directory ".";'.

> 
> >>last line ' lame server ibmwp1 ...'. ibmwp1 isn't a nameserver, neither for
> >>technodat.de nor technodat.co.at. Maybe host 193.101.111.20 doesn't know
> >>anything about being forwarder for ibmwp2, but then the message is
> incorrect.
> >
> >ibmwp1 is what it was trying to look up, and it was told that
> >193.101.111.20 is the address of a server that should be authoritative for
> >the technodat.co.at domain, but when it queried that server it got a
> >non-authoritative response.  Look up "Lame delegation" in the DNS & BIND
> >book.
> >
> >I'm not sure why it thinks that 193.101.111.20 is the server for that
> >domain, though.  When I look up the technodat.co.at domain, I get the
> >following information:
> >
> >;; ANSWERS:
> >technodat.co.at.	345600	NS	ns.austria.eu.net.
> >technodat.co.at.	345600	NS	ds5000.technodat.co.at.
> >
> >;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
> >ns.austria.eu.net.	1800	A	192.92.138.35
> >ds5000.technodat.co.at.	345600	A	193.81.3.151
> >
> >193.101.111.20 is NS03.DE.UU.NET.
> 
> Well, the name server 'ds5000.technodat.co.at' is the master of
> 'technodat.de'.
> 'ibmwp1' is and was never a server. As the slave server 'ibmwp2' has no
> development software installed, I do all work on 'ibmwp1' which is seen in
> the line
> 
> >Jul  1 16:31:37 ibmwp2 named[8942]: starting.  named 8.2.1 Thu Jul  1
> >15:49:39 MET_DST 1999
> >root at ibmwp1.technodat.co.at:/home/bind-8.2.1/src/bin/named
> 
> I assume named incorrectly use this information for it's query ...
> 
> >193.101.111.20 is NS03.DE.UU.NET.
> is a big NS of our ISP which I think is better to forward to than query a
root server ? Btw. we also use their 193.101.111.10 ...

	I suspect that recursive queries were disabled for a while on
	193.101.111.20.  Or there is a path through the server that
	results in rd not being set when a query is sent to a forwarder.

	Mark
> 
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