mail to and from site with one of 2 LAME servers (named 8.2.3-T6B)

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Sat Jan 27 05:34:12 UTC 2001



On 8.2.3-T6B we noticed a lot more rejected mail from sites with LAME 
delegations.  Take for example the domain moody.edu. One of its name 
servers is LAME, but the other is not.

Jan 27 00:12:17 marble named[166]: Lame server on 'moody.edu' (in 
'moody.edu'?): [131.103.1.101].53 'SECONDARY.DNS.IAGNET.NET'

If bind happens to pick the LAME one first, why does it not try the other 
server listed ? Its like he gives up on the first try.  This did not seem 
to be the behaviour before no ?

marble# nslookup
Default Server:  ns2.sentex.ca
Address:  199.212.134.2

 > set type=ns
 > moody.edu.
Server:  ns2.sentex.ca
Address:  199.212.134.2

Non-authoritative answer:
moody.edu       nameserver = SECONDARY.DNS.IAGNET.NET
moody.edu       nameserver = MBIGATE.moody.edu

Authoritative answers can be found from:
SECONDARY.DNS.IAGNET.NET        internet address = 131.103.1.101
MBIGATE.moody.edu       internet address = 206.68.228.41
 > lserver 131.103.1.101
Default Server:  [131.103.1.101]
Address:  131.103.1.101

 > moody.edu.
Server:  [131.103.1.101]
Address:  131.103.1.101

Non-authoritative answer:
moody.edu       nameserver = SECONDARY.DNS.IAGNET.NET
moody.edu       nameserver = MBIGATE.moody.edu

Authoritative answers can be found from:
SECONDARY.DNS.IAGNET.NET        internet address = 131.103.1.101
MBIGATE.moody.edu       internet address = 206.68.228.41
 > lserver mbigate.moody.edu
Default Server:  mbigate.moody.edu
Address:  206.68.228.41

 > moody.edu.
Server:  mbigate.moody.edu
Address:  206.68.228.41

moody.edu       nameserver = X.ns.verio.net
moody.edu       nameserver = mbigate.moody.edu
moody.edu       nameserver = S.ns.verio.net
moody.edu       nameserver = Y.ns.verio.net
Y.ns.verio.net  internet address = 129.250.35.251
S.ns.verio.net  internet address = 192.67.14.15
mbigate.moody.edu       internet address = 206.68.228.41
X.ns.verio.net  internet address = 129.250.35.250
 >
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Mike Tancsa,                          	          tel +1 519 651 3400
Network Administration,     			  mike at sentex.net
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