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Hi,

>From time to time, my named would die and cannot work anymore, with
the following error message :

named[xxxxx]: ns_req: no address for root server.

I don't have a clue why and how this happens. Could anyone help me with this ?

It's running on 2.1.6(1) FreeBSD.

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Hoffmann Yen-Wei Liu (Taipei, Taiwan)

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