No root nameservers for class in

Lars Petterson d8lars at dtek.chalmers.se
Wed Aug 4 11:24:34 UTC 1999


Hi!

> Lars Petterson wrote:
> > In article <37A8013B.1390BEDA at uab.ericsson.se> you write:
> > ...
> > >zone "." {
> > >     type master;
> > >     file "root.hints";
> > >     };
> > 
> > Din't know if it makes any difference, but I use:
> > 
> > zone "." {
> >         type hint;
> >         file "named.ca";
> > };
> >
> > I.e. type hint instaed of master...
> >
> 
> I have tried that as well. If I change back to 'hint' I don't get the
> 'No root nameservers for class IN' error. Instead I'm back to:
> 
> sysquery: query() contains our address
>           (gateway1.iponax.datacom-lab.uab.ericsson.se:10.20.0.13)
> sysquery: query() No possible A RRs

Ok, I did not look that closely at your root.hints file :-) the address in
root.hints is an address that you say that you are the DNS for. That will
probably create these problems. Sounds like recursion :-)  I found your
first message about this and I see there that 10.20.0.13 is your own
machine.

So you should exchange root.hints with one from ftp.rs.internic.net,
containing the real root-servers (as Barry Margolin explains) Or,
if you have no out-side connection to the Internet, just skip the
root.hints section (or perhaps make it blank.) I'm a bit out on the
thin ice here, but I think that would solve your problem.

-- 
Lars E Pettersson        |  Chalmers University of Technology
d8lars at dtek.chalmers.se  |  Gothenburg, SWEDEN


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