explanation of messages in syslog

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2 total messages Started by David Ryan Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:00

#522

Author: David Ryan
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 00:00

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G'day Learned ones,
		every now and then I peruse the syslog files to see what is happening
on our system. Occassionally I come across the following entries and I
would like someone to explain to me what they mean and more to the
point, is anything broken?

  1.  named[74]: recvfrom: Connection refused

  2.  tcplog: auth connection attempt from (someplace)

  3.  named[74]: Lame delegation to (someplace)



Thanks in advance, Dave.

Re: explanation of messages in syslog

#523

Author: sico
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:00

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In article <3421B734.5095E39C@cooma.snowy.net.au>,
David Ryan  <dsryan@cooma.snowy.net.au> wrote:

>		every now and then I peruse the syslog files to see what
>is happening on our system. Occassionally I come across the following
>entries and I would like someone to explain to me what they mean and
>more to the point, is anything broken?
>
>  1.  named[74]: recvfrom: Connection refused
>
>  2.  tcplog: auth connection attempt from (someplace)
>
>  3.  named[74]: Lame delegation to (someplace)

Questions 1 and 3 can be answered by looking in the FAQ for the newsgroup
comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains, where the named discussions take place.

The answer to 1 is that this is a harmless bug in BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 that
is corrected in later releases. You are advised to upgrade.

A lame delegation is when one nameserver says that another one is
authoritative for a certain domain, but the other one doesn't give
out authoritative answers for that domain.

The FAQ can be found at http://www.users.pfmc.net/~cdp/cptd-faq/ or at
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/internet/tcp-ip/domains-faq/
or any other place where they archive FAQ files.

>Thanks in advance, Dave.

CU, Sico.

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