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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2004 21:04:43 -0500 (EST)
From:      matthew <matthew@netway.com>
To:        questions <questions@davez.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BIND 8.3 going insane on FreeBSD 4.9
Message-ID:  <20040213210413.T71247@admin1.mdc.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040213192047.I431@zeus.davez.org>
References:  <F53D82B1-52C1-11D8-B33B-000393C0ABC0@antsclimbtree.com> <20040213192047.I431@zeus.davez.org>

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On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, questions wrote:

>
> Howdy,
>
> I found this report from Mark Edwards after searching for a fix/cause via
> The freebsd-questions Archive to deal with the same incident taking place
> on my FreeBSD box today!
>
> After reading about a fix/patch regarding inconsistency between Bind8 and
> Bind9 at - http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61647 posted by
> Melvyn Sopacua my first question is - what command will output the version
> of bind I currently _am_ running?

krazykat# named -v
named 8.3.4-REL Thu Apr  3 08:26:42 GMT 2003
        root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named


m

>I think it is at Ver 9 but have been
> unable to dig that up. Here is some of the info I have so far, sorry for
> the length but figure the content included will probably answer some
> questions in advance.
>
> _______________________________________________________________
> uname -a ==
> FreeBSD davez.org 4.9-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 #2:
> ______________________________________________________________
>
> ____________________snip from /var/log/messages.0.gz___________
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (a.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (c.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (e.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (f.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (g.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (h.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (i.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (j.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (k.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (l.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (m.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (a.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (a.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (e.root-servers.net)
> Feb 13 16:17:41 zeus named[83]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (f.root-servers.net)
> ____________________end snip_____________________________________
>
>
> My log file gets so big it just keeps rolling over due to size causing the
> /var directory to fill up and report the disk is full or out of space.
>
> __________________Snip from dmesg.today_________________________
> pid 81 (syslogd), uid 0 on /var: file system full
> pid 26444 (gzip), uid 0 on /var: file system full
> ________________________________________________________________
>
> to deal with this I simply emptied the huge messages files with
>
> ": > filename" where filename == messages.x.xx in the /var/log dir.
>
> ***The roll over just happened again ==
>
> #>wc messages.0.gz
>       73     823   69613 messages.0.gz
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Other than just shutting the box down, can anyone provide a solution to
> this PROBLEM?
>
> I googled/searched around and found a couple of attempts to correct this
> issue by others which included downloading a new updated named.root file
> and putting it in the /etc/namedb dir or changing instructs to resolvers
> only which were supposed to have corrected the issue for some, but didn't
> work for me. I'm in no way a top notch guru with FreeBSD but am willing to
> learn. So far all the man ***.xxx or cat xxx.*** efforts have failed me on
> this issue. Any help anyone can provide/suggest would be very appreciated.
>
> Dave Lajoie
> dave@davez.org
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Mark Edwards wrote:
>
> > So, I've seen this twice now.  BIND completely flips its lid and
> > utterly destroys the server.  Logs say:
> >
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.559 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.559 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.560 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.560 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.560 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.560 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.561 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.561 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.561 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.562 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.562 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.562 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.562 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.563 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.563 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > 29-Jan-2004 16:48:34.563 default: warning: sysquery: no addrs found for
> > root NS (H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> >
> >
> > My root hints are up to date, and I've seen this both using forwarders
> > and not.
> >
> > I've read that this is some incompatibility between BIND 8.3 and other
> > servers.  Is the only solution to this problem to run BIND 9?
> >
> > I really have to make sure this doesn't happen again, because it has
> > catastrophic effects on the server.  Thanks for any help!
> >
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