From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 27 05:22:25 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 6418316A4EC for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 05:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zeus.davez.org (dlajoie-gw.rf.ncia.net [69.24.8.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7E1E43D6E for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 05:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from questions@zeus.davez.org) Received: from zeus.davez.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zeus.davez.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i3RCMNBE007118 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:22:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from questions@zeus.davez.org) Received: from localhost (questions@localhost)i3RCMNJ0007115 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:22:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from questions@zeus.davez.org) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:22:23 -0400 (EDT) From: questions To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040427074310.Q7033@zeus.davez.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Bind/named Error check_hints? 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, 27 Apr 2004 12:22:25 -0000 At every boot/restart (power outage this weekend) I see a error that repeats over and over in my /var/log/messages file that reads like this = ____________________snip____________________________ named[83]sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) ------------------------------------------------- At the end of this repeated message which accumulates in my /var/log/messages file the last message reads like this = ____________________snip______________________________ check_hints: A records for B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET class 1 do not match hint records ------------------------------------------------- This activity fills up my drive to the point of running out of space = ____________________snip____________________________ pid 81 (syslogd), uid 0 on /var: file system full ------------------------------------------------ I am running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p4 #4 and named 8.3.6-REL-p1 I googled/searched around and found a couple of attempts to correct this issue by others which included downloading a new updated named.root file and putting it in the /etc/namedb dir or changing instructs to resolvers only which were supposed to have corrected the issue for some, but didn't work for me. I'm in no way a top notch guru with FreeBSD but am willing to learn. So far all my man ***.xxx or cat xxx.*** efforts have failed me on this issue. Any help anyone can provide/suggest would be very appreciated. Dave Lajoie dave@davez.org