From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 14:44:10 2003 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 B89F216A4D8 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:44:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A40643FA3 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish.pursued-with.net (babelfish.pursued-with.net [192.168.168.42]) by babelfish.pursued-with.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9994B3C844; Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:57:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:57:19 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Stevens To: Toomas Aas In-Reply-To: <200311142019.hAEKJFHl026105@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Message-ID: References: <200311142019.hAEKJFHl026105@lv.raad.tartu.ee> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:44:10 -0000 On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Toomas Aas wrote: > I understand what the message is saying, but I don't understan what > causes it to say such a thing. It's hard to believe that there is > something wrong with my root zone file, because 99.9% of the time the > problem does not happen and DNS lookups work just fine (including > commands like 'host e.root-servers.net'). > The named.root file is standard one installed by FreeBSD and I haven't > touched it: > ; $FreeBSD: src/etc/namedb/named.root,v 1.9.2.1 2002/11/06 > 09:24:12 dougb Exp $ > > -- > Toomas Aas | toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee | http://www.raad.tartu.ee/~toomas/ Didn't I see a blurb a few months ago that the root server cache file was going to be updated? Google on that and see what you get. You can update by ftp-ing the new file from ICANN or somewhere. Sorry for lack of specifics. KeS