From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 28 00:15:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA07852 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:15:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from aztec.co.za (aztec.co.za [196.7.70.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA07818 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:14:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from pcmgate.pcm.co.za [196.3.254.241] by aztec.co.za with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0u2Cp3-000ao7C; Thu, 28 Mar 96 10:12 EET Received: from IRVINEP5 (irvinep5.pcm.co.za [196.3.226.90]) by pcmgate.pcm.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA06171; Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:05:46 +0200 Message-Id: <199603280805.KAA06171@pcmgate.pcm.co.za> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Irvine Short" Organization: Professional Computer Manufacturers To: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:09:13 +2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Named goes wobbly after a while Reply-to: ishort@pcm.co.za CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Confirm-Reading-To: ishort@pcm.co.za X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.30) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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? I'm running 2.1R with the only binaries updated to stable being the user ppp ones. Acouple days ago, I got: Mar 26 19:33:44 pcmgate named[70]: Lame server on '15.11.51.145.in-addr.arpa' (i n ''?): [192.33.4.12].53 'C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET': learnt (A=196.7.70.131,NS=196.7.7 0.131) But just this morning I got a bunch of: Mar 28 08:48:30 pcmgate named[70]: ns_req: no address for root server Mar 28 08:50:14 pcmgate named[70]: ns_req: no address for root server Mar 28 08:52:15 pcmgate named[70]: ns_req: no address for root server Mar 28 08:56:32 pcmgate last message repeated 5 times And after a kill -1: Mar 28 08:57:32 pcmgate named[70]: reloading nameserver Mar 28 08:57:32 pcmgate named[70]: /etc/named.boot: line 8: unknown directive '# domain' Mar 28 08:57:33 pcmgate named[70]: Ready to answer queries. Mar 28 08:57:48 pcmgate named[70]: ns_req: no address for root server Mar 28 08:58:17 pcmgate last message repeated 2 times And after a kill -9 and a reload: Mar 28 08:58:35 pcmgate named[6024]: starting. named LOCAL-951116.090057 Thu No v 16 09:00:57 1995 jkh@westhill.cdrom.com:/usr/src/usr.sbin/named Mar 28 08:58:35 pcmgate named[6024]: /etc/named.boot: line 8: unknown directive '#domain' Mar 28 08:58:35 pcmgate named[6025]: Ready to answer queries. Regards, Irvine Short http://www.pcm.co.za/homepage/ishort/irv_home.html Technical Support Professional Computer Manufacturers Cape Town, South Africa Tel: ++27-21-235084 Fax ++27-21-235089