Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 17:01:50 -0400 From: Ben Kelly <ben.kelly@ieee.org> To: Scott Harrison <scott@mithrandir.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS problem Message-ID: <40A3E23E.6020302@ieee.org> In-Reply-To: <0D7772A8-A51E-11D8-B826-0003930F38CE@mithrandir.com> References: <6B4993A2-A50E-11D8-B826-0003930F38CE@mithrandir.com> <20040513194709.GI601@funkthat.com> <0D7772A8-A51E-11D8-B826-0003930F38CE@mithrandir.com>
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Scott Harrison wrote: > > On May 13, 2004, at 15:47, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >> Scott Harrison wrote this message on Thu, May 13, 2004 at 14:50 -0400: >> >>> Can someone either tell me what needs to be done to get rid of these >>> messages, or tell me which mailing list I should ask? >> >> >> Most likely your named.root is out of date. Last week b.root-servers.net >> changed IP address and took my dns server off line. Do a: >> dig @198.41.0.4 . ns > /etc/namedb/named.root >> >> and then restart your name server.. That should fix things for you. >> >> but for future reference, this is not a FreeBSD issue, a generic >> bind/internet question. >> >> > My named.root has been updated so appears to be correct. The > b.root-servers.net IP address I have is 192.228.79.201 so I think > everything is fine there. > > Unlike others I have this problem regularly. Every time I make my > server do a DNS lookup it puts a lot of lines into /var/log/messages, > but luckily for me I have not filled /var up. This has been happening > for many days now and I have not been able to find any real answers > using google. > Are you restricting outgoing DNS requests at your firewall? I made this mistake the first time I tried setting up bind. (Incidentally, ever since this happened the first line in my dmesg output has been corrupt.)
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