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From: ywliu@phi.Sinica.EDU.tw (Yen-Wei Liu)
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Subject: Why "ns_req: no root server " ?
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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 16:00:57 +0800 (CST)
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Hi,

I am running named on FreeBSD 2.1.6 for our own domain. From time
to time the named just dies, and keeps issuing error messages :

"named[xxx] : ns_req : no address for root server"

After the name server is restarted, everthing is normal.

What's this and how does this happen ?  I have run named on 2.0.5
before and this never happened.

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Hoffmann Yen-Wei Liu (Taipei, Taiwan)

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