What are these messages

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> John Tan <d_name at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:19990701034621.47617.qmail at hotmail.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well to quote from DNS and BIND 2nd edition page 140 a lame server is when
> :
> >
> > "A parent name server is delegating a subdomain to a child name server,and
> > the child name server is not authoritative for the subdomain."
> 
> I'm getting a lot more lame server entries in my messages log since
> upgrading to BIND 8.21.  Most but not all appear to be legitimate.
> 
> Surprisingly, one of many lame servers is this one:
> 
> Jul  3 01:10:48 tornado named[340]: Lame server on 'isc.org' (in 'org'?):
> [139.130.4.5].53

	This your forwarder being reported as lame.  Note the lack of a
	domain name after [139.130.4.5].53.  139.130.4.5 is ns1.telstra.net.

	Mark
> 
> I doubt that there is a problem with ISC's name servers (surely _they_ must
> get it right), so is this log entry correct?
> 
> Reuben
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