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Re: nameserver for class CHAOS ?



On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote:

> i've gotten a strange DNS/NAMED/BIND error message:
> 
> 	=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> 	Mar 12 10:36:45 server named[2991]: No root nameservers for class CHAOS
> 
> where do i look to determine whether or not this is important?
> and what to do about it, if so?

It's not terribly important, and I'd do a grep on your entire /var/named
(or wherever your zone files live) for CHAOS...

Basically, there are three classes of address that BIND supports...

>From O'Reilly's DNS/BIND book:
A.1.5 Classes
(From RFC 1035, page 13)

CLASS fields appear in resource records. The following CLASS mnemonics and
values are defined:

IN
1 the Internet

CS
2 the CSNET class (obsolete - used only for examples in some obsolete
RFCs)

CH
3 the CHAOS class

HS
4 the Hesiod class

You might want to consult RFC 1035 for more info :)

The most useful thing I can think of for the CHAOS class is the following:

gdh@eddie:~/test$ nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. 0

That'll only work on real nslookup's, which doesn't include the current
Debian one which complains about being deprecated...

gdh



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