From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 12:38:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA10897 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:38:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA10873; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 12:37:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.4/8.7.3) id VAA01431; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:37:22 +0100 (MET) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199701232037.VAA01431@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Why "ns_req: no root server " ? In-Reply-To: from Daniel O'Callaghan at "23. Jan. 97 20:34:41" To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:37:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: ywliu@phi.Sinica.EDU.tw, questions@freebsd.org, isp@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 > > 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. I have the same problem for more than half a year now on 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 servers. It dies sometimes after a couple of weeks, but recently after only 2 hours (server was quiescent): Jan 22 18:12:47 bug named[139]: Ready to answer queries. [..] Jan 22 20:35:10 bug named[139]: ns_req: no address for root server The only `special' is that the named is primary for the hosts-domain, but secondary for the rev-domain. If someone understands to read the log file I can offer a 2MB file of a level 10 debug log (the failure after 2 hours). > What are the expiry values for the root servers in root.cache For my case, I use the cache file from internic, unchanged. . 3600000 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 198.41.0.4 Any help appreciated, Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de