From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 14 12:19:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD3A16A4CE for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:19:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from lv.raad.tartu.ee (lv.raad.tartu.ee [194.126.106.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3D2743FF5 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:19:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee) Received: Message by Barricade lv.raad.tartu.ee with ESMTP id hAEKJFHl026105 for ; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:19:15 +0200 Message-Id: <200311142019.hAEKJFHl026105@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Received: from INFO/SpoolDir by raad.tartu.ee (Mercury 1.48); 14 Nov 03 22:19:44 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by INFO (Mercury 1.48); 14 Nov 03 22:19:22 +0200 From: "Toomas Aas" Organization: Tartu City Government To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:19:18 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Priority: normal Subject: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:19:18 -0000 Hello! I have seen this problem two times on one RELENG_4_8 machine and now I just saw it on a freshly installed 4.9-RELEASE. I've tried to google but the results i've found haven't helped me this far. On the machines where the problem happens, I'm running BIND from the base sytem (8.3.4 and 8.3.6 respectively) as a caching-only nameserver without any local zones defined (except the 'localhost' zones created by make-localhost.sh). Suddenly, out of the blue, syslogd starts writing the following into the log: Nov 14 21:31:23 machine named[81]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Nov 14 21:31:23 machine named[81]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Nov 14 21:31:23 machine named[81]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Nov 14 21:31:23 machine named[81]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Nov 14 21:31:23 machine named[81]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) Nov 14 21:31:23 machine named[81]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) and it logs A LOT of these messages. First time it happened on a RELENG_4_8 machine, the log filled up my 1 GB /var partition. The second time it logged ca 30 000 lines in 3 seconds and then everything returned to normal without any intervention. The third time, on 4.9-RELEASE machine, when I was actually present at the time it started happening, I restarted the machine and this returned things to normal. I understand what the message is saying, but I don't understan what causes it to say such a thing. It's hard to believe that there is something wrong with my root zone file, because 99.9% of the time the problem does not happen and DNS lookups work just fine (including commands like 'host e.root-servers.net'). The relevant portion of named.conf: --------------------< cut >--------------------- forwarders { 194.126.106.110; 194.126.115.18; }; zone "." { type hint; file "named.root"; }; --------------------< cut >--------------------- The named.root file is standard one installed by FreeBSD and I haven't touched it: ; $FreeBSD: src/etc/namedb/named.root,v 1.9.2.1 2002/11/06 09:24:12 dougb Exp $ -- Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ * Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)