From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 12:48:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07302 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:48:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07254 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:48:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01196; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:48:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:48:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Tim Gustafson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named question In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980316205329.00a5ee10@mail.falconsoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Tim Gustafson wrote: > I wonder if this is slightly off topic, but could someone tell me what the > following error message means from named: > > Mar 16 20:45:59 esther named[148]: sysquery: findns error (NXDOMAIN) on > middlecountry.k12.ny.us? > Mar 16 20:45:59 esther named[148]: qserial_query(middlecountry.k12.ny.us): > sysquery FAILED > > I keep getting this on all me secondary zones. I'm not behind a firewall > or anything. Any ideas woud be greatly appreciated. Looks like the machines are getting confused trying to resolve middlecountry.k12.ny.us. Make sure the nameservers are set up properly and are pointing to valid name servers. A quick peek at your servers appears OK, but you guys have tons of redundant NS's. ns.imperial-software.com has the SOA record misordered, it looks like. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message