Search Again: Re: Lame Delegation From: Men & Mice Support Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 Time: 10:48:00 pm >While checking my QDNS server yesterday I heard a lot of disk activitiy all >the sudden and so I checked the log and found it full of a Lame Delegation >for mailserver.com with two IP addresses which alternated back and forth. >The log was completely full of this same entry except for the two IP >numbers for this address. Any idea as to what happened and why so many >entrys/hits all of the sudden? Spam. A spammer was apparently trying to send scads of mail through your server, which was trying to verify the sender's name with your name server. The name server was running into a lame delegation and was thus unable to give the mail server a good answer. That's my guess. The lame delegation is simple: The root servers delegate mailserver.com to ns1.altaway.net, which in turn tries to delegate it to ns1.granitecanyon.com. Which means that the root servers have incorrect (lame) information. As for the granitecanyon.com servers, they have done their best to shut it down: "Normal name service for this zone has been discontinued. It was being used in violation of the anti-spam policy of the Public DNS. See http://SOA.GraniteCanyon.COM/" - this came from a TXT record for mailserver.com. And here's the SOA record: mailserver.com. 12096000 SOA nuked.for.spamming. nobody.mailserver.com. 0 ; serial 2419201 ; refresh (28 days, 1 second) 1209600 ; retry (14 days) 14515202 ; expire (168 days, 2 seconds) 12096000 ; minimum (140 days) ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice cbuxton@menandmice.com http://www.menandmice.com

Messages In This Thread: Lame Delegation by Tony on May 25, 1999 at 3:23:00 pm Re: Lame Delegation by Men & Mice Support on May 25, 1999 at 10:48:00 pm Re: Lame Delegation by Eric Bickford on Jun 2, 1999 at 2:19:00 am Re: Lame Delegation by Men & Mice Support on Jun 2, 1999 at 11:43:00 pm Re: Lame Delegation by Eric Bickford on Jun 3, 1999 at 12:05:00 am Re: Lame Delegation by Donovan Rittenbach on Jun 3, 1999 at 11:20:00 pm Re: Lame Delegation by Men & Mice Support on Jun 4, 1999 at 1:09:00 am Re: Lame Delegation by Joseph D''Andrea on Jun 4, 1999 at 12:56:00 pm Re: Lame Delegation by Donovan Rittenbach on Jun 5, 1999 at 7:48:00 pm Re: Lame Delegation by Men & Mice Support on Jun 5, 1999 at 8:21:00 pm Re: Lame Delegation by Donovan Rittenbach on Jun 5, 1999 at 8:27:00 pm Re: Lame Delegation by Donovan Rittenbach on Jun 5, 1999 at 8:47:00 pm Re: Lame Delegation by Men & Mice Support on Jun 9, 1999 at 5:58:00 am Re: Lame Delegation by Men & Mice Support on Jun 9, 1999 at 6:19:00 am Re: Lame Delegation by Eric Bickford on Nov 22, 1999 at 2:30:00 am Re: Lame Delegation by Men & Mice Support on Nov 22, 1999 at 11:22:00 am Re: Lame Delegation by Fabio Cristian Sestilli on Aug 30, 2001 at 6:54:08 am