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On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:41:08 +0200
"Robert Eckardt" <Robert.Eckardt@Robert-Eckardt.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:07:05 +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote
> > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:00:47 +0300
> > Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > From time to time I get this:
> > > 
> > > Sep  7 12:57:44 it named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (d.root-servers.net)
> > > Sep  7 12:57:44 it named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (a.root-servers.net)
> > > Sep  7 12:57:44 it named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> (c.root-servers.net)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had the same problem a while ago.
> I had configured my ISP's name-server (actually several of them) to
> forward requests to. It happened that one of them became unreachable.
> From (just quickly) looking at the source, I found that named ends in
> this very loop as it does not try to actually request adresses for the 
> root name-servers but rather writes out error messages.

Kinda' funny since it has named.root handy.

> The funny thing was that the forwarders are managed in the same list
> as the root servers.
> After removing any forwarders from my named-config and relying
> completely on the root servers I never had the problem again.
> (Before this it happend after a few hours up to several weeks of
> named's run-time.)

Yes that what was happening here too; and that loop nice loaded the
system.

Thanks.


BTW, 5.3 with debug.witness_watch=0 just rocks; the load is a half :)


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