[rbldnsd] "Lame" Miirror

[Michael Tokarev]

David Cary Hart wrote:
> A new mirror running bind and rbldnsd:
> 
> Aug  4 10:44:46 tqmcube named[366]: lame server resolving 
> '40.220.17.65.dnsbl.tqmcube.com' (in 'dnsbl.tqmcube.com'?): 
> 213.239.195.182#53

Can you please be more specific?  How exactly it is "running
bind and rbldnsd" ?  Both at the same time?  How 'tqmqube' host
(from which the above logging comes) is related to all this?

> It will answer queries directly but doesn't seem to take a portion 
> of queries from the pool.

>From what I can see, 213.239.195.182 is running bind, and it
is NOT authoritative for the zone in question, ie, it is taking
answers from other two nameservers (mirror1 and mirror3).  It
is shown in both reply flags (no `aa' flag), and in decreasing
TTL in replies.

I'm not sure when bind (the resolver client, not the server)
will log 'lame server' - but lack of 'aa' flag (authoritative
answer) in header is sure a possibility.  Ditto for "taking
a portion of queries" for a "lame" nameserver.

In any way, it should return authoritative answer.

/mjt