From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 29 18: 7:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611AC37B416 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 18:07:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fBU22pg10840 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:02:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C2E779B.6050205@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 21:10:35 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: [OT] bind problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've got a FreeBSD proxy that's supposed to be running bind as a caching nameserver, but something is awry and I can't figure out what the Sam-Hill I goofed up. FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE bind 8.2.4-REL I've attempted to configure named to "forward only" so that it just does all its resolving through the upstream servers. I also have the clients configured to use the upstream servers as backups. Apparently this caching server is never answering any queries and the upstreams are getting all the questions (which, obviously, defeats the purpose) When I run nslookup on the proxy, I get an error: *** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: No response from server And it falls back to the secondary to answer the queries. /var/log/messages records the following complaint from named every time I run nslookup: ns_req: no address for root server Anyone have any ideas what's wrong here? I'd be more than happy to provide the config files, but I didn't want to spam the list if it's something dumb that I goofed and someone can point it out without the config files. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message