problem in second DNS

[Michael Voight]

Julie Xu wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> On my second DNS there is message all the time like:
> Jul  6 13:32:23 tscc2 named[12788]: Lame server on 'www.hispirit.org.au'
> (in 'hispirit.org.au'?): [192.100.80.2].53 'carlton.acci.COM.AU': learnt
> (A=128.250.1.22,NS=128.250.1.22)
> Jul  6 13:32:23 tscc2 named[12788]: Lame server on 'www.hispirit.org.au'
> (in 'hispirit.org.au'?): [203.21.84.1].53 'lynx.aba.NET.AU': learnt
> (A=128.250.1.22,NS=128.250.1.22)
> Jul  6 13:32:23 tscc2 named[12788]: Lame server on 'www.hispirit.org.au'
> (in 'hispirit.org.au'?): [203.21.85.1].53 'ocelot.aba.NET.AU': learnt
> (A=128.250.1.22,NS=128.250.1.22)
> 
> How can I give rid of this? anything wrong with my DNS??

Lame server means the hispirit.org.au domain has NS records for ocelot
and lynx.aba.net.au and these machines do not have this zone configured.

> 
> I have also found some:
> Jul  6 13:31:11 tscc2 named[12788]: dangling CNAME pointer
> (44.0/25.236.1.209.in
> -addr.arpa)
> 
> what dangling means?

A dangling CNAME means an alias that points to something that doesn't
exist. 

If I say:

bob.cisco.com. in cname mark.cisco.com.

and mark.cisco.com. doesn't exist, then this is a dangling CNAME record.

Michael