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Date:      Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:09:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
To:        moos@webmore.com (Darius Moos)
Cc:        ben@narcissus.ml.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ns_req error from named
Message-ID:  <199704020809.KAA03960@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970402050933.00ce8300@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de> from Darius Moos at "2. Apr. 97  5:05:34"

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> 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. :-)

Robert

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