From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 12:38:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09495 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA09428 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 12:38:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA22033; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:36:21 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA27727; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:36:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA05524; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:27:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606101927.VAA05524@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: dns failure To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 21:27:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: garya@ics.com (Gary Aitken) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <31BC655F.500F9F30@ics.com> from Gary Aitken at "Jun 10, 96 12:11:44 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Gary Aitken wrote: > On a system acting as a gateway, > I'm suddenly getting the following message logged for dns searches : > > named[78]: ns_req: no address for root server Somebody else recently complained about this, too. It looked from his description as if the named did expire the root server entries after exactly the given TTL (~ 41 days). Oh well, the `cache' entries are intended to never expire?! -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)