From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 22:28:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9263E16A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:28:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ybbsmtp04.mail.yahoo.co.jp (ybbsmtp04.mail.yahoo.co.jp [210.81.151.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A251143D1D for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:28:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ayakokiko@ybb.ne.jp) Received: from unknown (HELO gorgon.near.this) (219.11.234.11 with poptime) by ybbsmtp04.mail.yahoo.co.jp with SMTP; 7 Sep 2004 22:28:20 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Received: from hydra.near.this (hydra.near.this [10.0.3.20]) by gorgon.near.this (Postfix) with ESMTP id 841397F24 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:28:12 +0900 (JST) Received: by hydra.near.this (Postfix, from userid 100) id 04B519839; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:28:11 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:28:11 +0900 From: horio shoichi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200409071125.i87BP3qk005202@lv.raad.tartu.ee> References: <20040907130047.4334dc0e@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <200409071125.i87BP3qk005202@lv.raad.tartu.ee> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 0.9.12a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20040907.222811.d3edc1276d5892bc.10.0.3.20@bugsgrief.net> Subject: Re: named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS .......... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 22:28:22 -0000 On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:24:37 +0300 "Toomas Aas" 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) > > Sep 7 12:57:45 it named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (h.root-servers.net) > > Sep 7 12:57:45 it named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (f.root-servers.net) > > Sep 7 12:57:45 it named[353]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (b.root-servers.net) > > > > This problem plagued me for a long time on several FreeBSD 4 servers > running BIND 8 from the base system. Google finds numerous discussions > on this problem in various lists/newsgroups but a solution is rarely > offered. > > Finally, I found someone's theory in a NetBSD (or was it OpenBSD) > forum. I can't tell whether it is true or not, but it makes sense > to me. > > If your BIND is configured to use a forwarder and this forwarder is > really good then BIND (almost) never needs to contact the root servers. > The root zone times out in memory and it is not reloaded from disk. It > is only loaded when BIND is started. Thus, if your BIND finally needs > to contact a root name server after a long time of getting all > responses from forwarder, it turns out that the data for root zone is > not available... > > Now, as I said, I cannot tell whether this theory is true or not. What > I can say is that on all 4 machines where I run BIND I configured > one of two workarounds: > - use "forward only" so you *never* need to check the root zone > - do not use forwarders at all so you check the root zone fairly > frequently. > > I did this almost a year ago, and after that I never have had this > problem again. HTH. > -- > Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ > * Press any key to continue or any other key to quit. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hmm, then the easiest cure against OP's would be periodically (say, per week) requesting purposely wrong request (e.g., nslookup example.heh) ? horio shoichi