From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 8 01:46:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA22619 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 01:46:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [193.117.77.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA22502 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 01:44:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18031 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:38:08 GMT Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA03816; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:43:18 GMT Message-ID: <19971208094317.46212@iii.co.uk> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 09:43:17 +0000 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS query tracing (solved) References: <19971204000833.38851@nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <19971204000833.38851@nothing-going-on.org>; from Nik Clayton on Thu, Dec 04, 1997 at 12:08:33AM +0000 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Dec 04, 1997 at 12:08:33AM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote: > As far as I can tell, named is working properly. There are no complaints > from named at startup, and I can nslookup every single one of my > addresses and their counterparts in in-addr.arpa without any problems, > and with the modem unplugged without any delays. > However, after booting the machine, and within a few seconds of logging > in at the console, the modem starts to dial out. > - /etc/named/named.boot includes the line 'options query-log' Turns out this was caused by the cache . named.root line in named.boot. named was trying to connect to one of the root nameservers reasonably soon after starting. I took that line out, and added the line options forward-only This, coupled with the already in place "forwarders" line fixed the problem. N -- --+==[ Nik Clayton is Just Another Perl Hacker at Interactive Investor ]==+-- It is easier to seek forgiveness than permission