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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 1997 21:37:22 +0100 (MET)
From:      Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To:        danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan)
Cc:        ywliu@phi.Sinica.EDU.tw, questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why "ns_req: no root server " ?
Message-ID:  <199701232037.VAA01431@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970123203708.295H-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> from Daniel O'Callaghan at "23. Jan. 97 20:34:41"

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> > 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

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