Re: BIND can't find root nameservers
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:23:08AM -0500, John Holland wrote:
> I have a recurring problem on a Debian machine that is running named.
> The bind program becomes unable to get the address of the root
> nameservers and fills up /var/log/daemonlog,/var/log/syslog with
> messages to that effect.
>
> sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
I got hit by this earlier this week. My current working theory
is that it has something to do with a bug in BIND, but I can't be
sure.
My fix included adding a "forward only;" statement in the global
"options {};" stanza following my "forwarders { ... };"
statement. However, I suspect that this is only masking the
problem.
It took me about twelve hours to figure that out. Total waste of
my employers time, and not a particularly positive commentary on
my troubleshooting abilities! :-)
For more details see the following url:
http://www.whatever.ca/blog/2003/12/9/dns-hell/
--
Shaun Crossley
mailto:shaun@whatever.ca
http://www.whatever.ca
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