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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 1996 00:27:09 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        ishort@pcm.co.za
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Named goes wobbly after a while 
Message-ID:  <199603280827.AAA13437@Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Mar 1996 10:09:13." <199603280805.KAA06171@pcmgate.pcm.co.za> 

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> But just this morning I got a bunch of:
>
>Mar 28 08:48:30 pcmgate named[70]: ns_req: no address for root server 
>Mar 28 08:50:14 pcmgate named[70]: ns_req: no address for root server 
>Mar 28 08:52:15 pcmgate named[70]: ns_req: no address for root server 
>Mar 28 08:56:32 pcmgate last message repeated 5 times                 

   ...that's what I suspected.

>And after a kill -1:
>Mar 28 08:57:32 pcmgate named[70]: reloading nameserver               
>Mar 28 08:57:32 pcmgate named[70]: /etc/named.boot: line 8: unknown directive '# domain'                                          
>Mar 28 08:57:33 pcmgate named[70]: Ready to answer queries.                     
>Mar 28 08:57:48 pcmgate named[70]: ns_req: no address for root server           
>Mar 28 08:58:17 pcmgate last message repeated 2 times                        

   Yup - that's the reason it's failing.

>And after a kill -9 and a reload:
>
>Mar 28 08:58:35 pcmgate named[6024]: starting.  named LOCAL-951116.090057 Thu No v 16 09:00:57  1995    
>jkh@westhill.cdrom.com:/usr/src/usr.sbin/named         
>Mar 28 08:58:35 pcmgate named[6024]: /etc/named.boot: line 8: unknown 
>directive '#domain'                                                   
>Mar 28 08:58:35 pcmgate named[6025]: Ready to answer queries.                   

   Well, you might at least first fix the syntax error in your named.boot
fill..."#" is not a comment character (assuming that's what was intended). You
may wish to check out named.root and make sure it is valid and up-to-date.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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