[lug] Lame server on?

[Paul Bille]

I looked up the responsible party WORLD.STD.COM for the navigator.org domain
using WHOIS and called long distance to Cambridge Mass.  I was forwarded to
a "help desk" who had no idea what I was talking about.  Basically, if it
wasn't an 8-none-1 question, it was out of his realm.  I got an e-mail
address from him for technical questions and sent the significant
information including the error message and the comments regarding the
authoritative DNS via e-mail.  The response I got back was basically, "We
don't see a problem."

Fortunately, as far as I can tell it's their problem, not mine.

Paul
http://bille.cudenver.edu/author

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
Behalf Of Calvin Dodge
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 11:09 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Lame server on?


On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:01:59AM -0700, John Hernandez wrote:
> Paul Bille wrote:
>
> It means that they have a ns record pointing to a server that isn't
> actually authoratative for the domain.  If they are your friends, you
> might want to let them know.

My employer's ISP has been promoting new servers - where one can rent a
piece of one, or the whole thing.

The ISP represents these servers as being bullet-proof (they _do_ run
Linux), and expertly maintained.

So it was a little disconcerting to see "lame server" messages in the log
after we browsed the ISP's promotional site (if they can't set up DNS
properly, can we trust them to do the REST of the job well?)

Calvin

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Calvin Dodge
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