From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 10 14:51:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA01005 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:51:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org ([207.40.47.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA00980 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 14:51:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nightmare (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [206.230.42.65]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA00344; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:48:27 -0600 Message-ID: <31BC9829.64880EEB@ics.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 15:48:25 -0600 From: Gary Aitken X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Wunsch CC: FreeBSD hackers Subject: Re: dns failure References: <199606101927.VAA05524@uriah.heep.sax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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?! Hmmm, I don't think this is it. The TTL from the root sites is 7 days, with a serial 19960607000. The TTL from named.root or the cache is ~41 days, but starting when? If it's the time when named was started, I've got lots of time left :-). ns_req.c has the following comment around the code which spits out this message: ** Don't go into an infinite loop if ** the admin gave root NS records in the cache ** file without giving address records ** for the root servers. The cache file is the standard one from ftp.rs.internic.net, and contains entries with both NS records and A records, so, as usual, I'm confused... -- Gary Aitken garya@ics.com (business) garya@dreamchaser.org (personal)