[TriLUG] Slides from last night's DNS Presentation

[Matt Pusateri]

On Fri, October 15, 2004 2:06 pm, Tanner Lovelace said:
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>
> 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