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Subject: Re: Named goes wobbly after a while 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 23:51:25 -0800
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>I have it configured as a primary name server with all our domain's 
>machines entered into the databases and forwarding turned on so that 
>if it does not know an address it asks our ISP's name server.
>
>The name server here works reliably for all the local names but every 
>2 or three days it forgets to ask our ISP for names outside our 
>domain so nobody can find anything outside our local domain.
>
>If I kill the process and restart it everything is fine. Any ideas?

   Any messages from named on the console or in /var/log/messages? Is this
with 2.1R, 2.1-stable, 2.2-current, or an early 1.x release of FreeBSD?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project