Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 10:44:42 +0800 (CST) From: ywliu@phi.Sinica.EDU.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) To: isp@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why "ns_req: no root server " ? (fwd)(Should be solved !!) Message-ID: <9701240244.AA15378@phi.Sinica.EDU.tw>
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I got a reply from Mr. Don Lewis. He kindly pointed out the reason and provided the best solution, IMHO. I diecided to share his advice with you, and thanks for all persons trying to help me and people with the same problem. Forwarded message: > From gdonl@tsc.tdk.com Fri Jan 24 08:29 CST 1997 > From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> > Message-Id: <199701240032.QAA13227@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:32:28 -0800 > In-Reply-To: ywliu@phi.Sinica.EDU.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) > "Why "ns_req: no root server " ?" (Jan 23, 4:00pm) > X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) > To: ywliu@phi.Sinica.EDU.tw (Yen-Wei Liu) > Subject: Re: Why "ns_req: no root server " ? > Content-Type: text > Content-Length: 1031 > > On Jan 23, 4:00pm, Yen-Wei Liu wrote: > } Subject: Why "ns_req: no root server " ? > } Hi, > } > } 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. > } > } What's this and how does this happen ? I have run named on 2.0.5 > } before and this never happened. > > When named starts up it reads the root cache file and sends out > a request for the root server list to the hosts in this file and > caches the answer, which includes the names and addresses of the > root servers. If the root server addresses time out before the > names do, then you get the above message. The version you are > running isn't able to recover. I'd recommend upgrading to BIND 4.9.5-P1, > which has a number of fixes to this and related problems (as well as > a number of other important bug fixes). Get > ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/4.9.5/bind-4.9.5-P1.tar.gz > > --- Truck > ps. Can we suggest FreeBSD 2.2 include this version instead ? Or is it done already ? Yen-Wei Liu
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