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From: Dev Chanchani <dev@trifecta.com>
To: Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@phi.Sinica.EDU.tw>
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Subject: Re: Why "ns_req: no root server " ?
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Take a loot at your named.root (cache) file and make sure you have the 
approriate addresses for the root nameserers. If you do not, just query 
the addresses by using someone else's nameservers like
nslookup
>server [ip address of a ns here]
then query for the addresses of the root nameservers and plug them in.

	--Dev

On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Yen-Wei Liu wrote:

> I am running named on FreeBSD 2.1.6 for our own domain. From time
> to time the named just dies, and keeps issuing error messages :
> 
> "named[xxx] : ns_req : no address for root server"
> 
> After the name server is restarted, everthing is normal.