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Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:37:37 +1100 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Yen-Wei Liu <ywliu@phi.Sinica.EDU.tw>
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Subject: Re: Why "ns_req: no root server " ?
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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Yen-Wei Liu wrote:

> 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.

What are the expiry values for the root servers in root.cache

Danny