From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 2 00:10:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA14425 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:10:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.160.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA14383 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 00:09:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA03960; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:09:36 +0200 From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199704020809.KAA03960@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: ns_req error from named In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970402050933.00ce8300@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de> from Darius Moos at "2. Apr. 97 5:05:34" To: moos@webmore.com (Darius Moos) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:09:36 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: ben@narcissus.ml.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hm ... never seen this but do you have a named.root and does it have > a cache-entry in named.boot ? > Your named.boot and named.root would help here. > > Darius Moos. > > > At 16:38 01.04.97 -0800, you wrote: > >Lately my named has been emitting these: > > > >Apr 1 15:22:19 narcissus named[72]: ns_req: no address for root server > > > >Does anyone know what they are, how to stop them, and whether I should be > >worried about them? I am running FreeBSD 2.1.7. I can provide more > >detail on my named setup or whatever once you tell me what's relevant > >information. I had this problem too. Several people pointed out to me that it is a bug in named. Upgrade to 4.9.5-P1. This version contains a "work-around", i.e. you will see this message once in a while, but named is able to recover from that. (Yes, I wanted to write a summary on that. :-) Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt ( Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169 ) Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany ----X---8---- Telefon: +49 234 700-3709, Telefax: +49 234 7094-574 8 E-Mail: RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de --------8---- URL: http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte >>> To be successful one needs friends, <<< >>> To be very successful one needs enemies. <<<