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From: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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Subject: Re: ns_req error from named
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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
> 
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 Ben

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