On Fri, October 15, 2004 2:06 pm, Tanner Lovelace said: <snip> > > Yes, you've missed something. A lame server is a server basically a > server that is listed as being "authoritative" (there's a term that > should > probably be defined[1]) for a domain but when queried answers with a > "non-authoritive" answer. See this link for more information: > > http://www.menandmice.com/online_docs_and_faq/glossary/glossarytoc.htm?lame.delegation.htm > > Cheers, > Tanner > > [1] An "authoritative" server is what that doesn't have to query > another > server in response to a domain query. This includes master server > *and* slave servers (because a slave server doesn't "query" master > server, it transfers entire zones at a time). Authoritative servers > should > be all servers referenced in NS records for a domain. For example, > for > trilug, you can use the host command to see it's name servers: > > % host -t ns trilug.org > trilug.org name server ns.wayfarer.org. > trilug.org name server ns.trilug.org. > > But, if you do a "whois trilug.org" you actually get 3 name servers > listed (hmm... perhaps we should fix that!). Anyway, that's what > an "authoritative" server is.
Thanks Tanner, This clears up my mis-understanding. For some reason I was confusing servers who have the wrong answer versus servers which are not authoritative. Matt -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
