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Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 11:09:09 -0100
To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
From: Darius Moos <moos@webmore.com>
Subject: Re: ns_req error from named
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Try this one
   ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/src/4.9.5/

Darius Moos.


At 00:35 02.04.97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Robert Eckardt wrote:
>
>> > Hm ... never seen this but do you have  a named.root and does it have
>> > a cache-entry in named.boot ?
>> > Your named.boot and named.root would help here.
>> > 
>> > Darius Moos.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > At 16:38 01.04.97 -0800, you wrote:
>> > >Lately my named has been emitting these:
>> > >
>> > >Apr  1 15:22:19 narcissus named[72]: ns_req: no address for root server
>> > >
>> > >Does anyone know what they are, how to stop them, and whether I
should be
>> > >worried about them?  I am running FreeBSD 2.1.7.  I can provide more
>> > >detail on my named setup or whatever once you tell me what's relevant
>> > >information. 
>> 
>> I had this problem too.
>> Several people pointed out to me that it is a bug in named.
>> Upgrade to 4.9.5-P1. This version contains a "work-around", i.e.
>> you will see this message once in a while, but named is able to
>> recover from that.
>> (Yes, I wanted to write a summary on that. :-)
>
>Is this
>
>/*
> *      @(#)Version.c   4.9 (Berkeley) 7/21/90
> *      $Id: Version.c,v 1.1.1.1 1994/09/22 19:46:13 pst Exp $
> */
>
>The right one?  It is what I found in
>ftp://freebsd.cdrom.com/FreeBSD-stable/src/usr.sbin/named/Version.c  
>(I think).
>
>I am running -STABLE.
>
>> Robert
>> 
>> -- 
>> Dr. Robert Eckardt                                                 (
>>     Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169          )
>>     Universitaetsstrasse 150,   D-44780 Bochum,    Germany
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>>     Telefon: +49 234 700-3709,   Telefax: +49 234 7094-574             8
>>     E-Mail:  RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de
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>>     URL:  http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte
>> >>> To be successful one needs friends,
<<<
>> >>> To be very successful one needs enemies.
<<<
>> 
>
>
>
> Ben
>
>"You have your mind on computers, it seems."
>
>