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DNS-LAME-DELEGATION

A nameserver is not authoritative for the zone

What it means

A "lame" nameserver is delegated but does not host the zone (or hosts a stale copy). Queries that land on it fail or time out, so resolution becomes slow and unreliable.

How to fix it

  1. 1Compare the delegation (registrar) with the servers that actually hold the zone.
  2. 2Either load the zone onto the lame server or remove it from the delegation.
  3. 3Re-check the DNS facet; every server should show "authoritative: yes".

Re-check after the change

DNS changes can take up to the record's TTL to be seen; use Re-run on the result page to bypass our 10-minute cache.