From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 14:01:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049B516A4CF for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 14:01:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.speakeasy.net (mail1.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DEF843D39 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 14:01:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben.kelly@ieee.org) Received: (qmail 24892 invoked by uid 64014); 13 May 2004 21:01:57 -0000 Received: from ben.kelly@ieee.org by mail1.speakeasy.net with AmikaGuardian-Server-2.1.2; 13 May 2004 21:01:57 -0000 X-AmikaGuardian-Id: mail1.speakeasy.net108448211726124883 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Override Structure : 2.95 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Vectored : 2.95 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Forwarded Mail : 2.95 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Override : 2.95 X-AmikaGuardian-Category: AN:Exception : 2.95 X-AmikaGuardian-Action: Do Nothing() Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.10.181]) (desdicardo@[208.247.255.11]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 13 May 2004 21:01:56 -0000 Message-ID: <40A3E23E.6020302@ieee.org> Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:01:50 -0400 From: Ben Kelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Harrison References: <6B4993A2-A50E-11D8-B826-0003930F38CE@mithrandir.com> <20040513194709.GI601@funkthat.com> <0D7772A8-A51E-11D8-B826-0003930F38CE@mithrandir.com> In-Reply-To: <0D7772A8-A51E-11D8-B826-0003930F38CE@mithrandir.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 21:01:58 -0000 Scott Harrison wrote: > > On May 13, 2004, at 15:47, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >> Scott Harrison wrote this message on Thu, May 13, 2004 at 14:50 -0400: >> >>> Can someone either tell me what needs to be done to get rid of these >>> messages, or tell me which mailing list I should ask? >> >> >> Most likely your named.root is out of date. Last week b.root-servers.net >> changed IP address and took my dns server off line. Do a: >> dig @198.41.0.4 . ns > /etc/namedb/named.root >> >> and then restart your name server.. That should fix things for you. >> >> but for future reference, this is not a FreeBSD issue, a generic >> bind/internet question. >> >> > My named.root has been updated so appears to be correct. The > b.root-servers.net IP address I have is 192.228.79.201 so I think > everything is fine there. > > Unlike others I have this problem regularly. Every time I make my > server do a DNS lookup it puts a lot of lines into /var/log/messages, > but luckily for me I have not filled /var up. This has been happening > for many days now and I have not been able to find any real answers > using google. > Are you restricting outgoing DNS requests at your firewall? I made this mistake the first time I tried setting up bind. (Incidentally, ever since this happened the first line in my dmesg output has been corrupt.)