[TriLUG] caching nameserver question

William Sutton william at trilug.org
Mon Oct 18 08:21:27 EDT 2004


I have a Sony Vaio running Red Hat 9 and the freshrpms yum and 
caching-nameserver.  At the moment /var/log/messages is taking up 21 megs 
of disk space, and appears to consist entirely of caching-nameserver 
messages:

Oct 17 04:57:49 corran named[2116]: lame server resolving 'localhost.<fake domain>.com' (in 'hippogeek.com'?): 63.209.15.211#53

where <fake domain> has been substituted for the purpose of this email in 
place of a DynDNS domain that I still haven't gotten working :)

My resolv.conf file looks like:

nameserver 192.168.1.2

but, of course, 192.168.1.2 belong to the laptop:

corran:/var/log# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:86:3F:B2:D9
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10640417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10767877 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:2592981457 (2472.8 Mb)  TX bytes:1319952843 (1258.8 Mb)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x4000

So the question is, where is my log message coming from and how can I put 
a stop to it?  This puppy doesn't have a lot of disk space and I'm getting 
tired of manually zeroing out the logs to keep the disk from filling up :)

-- 
William Sutton



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