Error message help?

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hello all,
>     I have a split DNS setup here at work. My primary DNS server for our
> domain has info that the internet needs and I have another DNS server on our
> internal network with all our internal data. I have the primay DNSs
> /etc/resolv.conf looking like this:
> 
> 
> nameserver 192.168.1.253
> 
> that is our internal server. I have all our machines pointing to the
> internal DNS server and I have the internal machine set up to forward to the
> Primary server for the domain.
> 
> I also had
> forward only;
> 
> setup under options. and I started getting an error message in my internal
> server's log file  and then the machine locked up. Here is what it said:
> 
> 
> Jul  1 12:28:36 dns1 named[10543]: sysquery: findns error (SERVFAIL) on
> ns1.socomm.net?
> Jul  1 12:28:36 dns1 named[10543]: sysquery: findns error (SERVFAIL) on
> ns2.socomm.net?
> it kept doing this over and over for different servers
> just before this I had this line:
> Jul  1 13:19:30 dns1 named[145]: No root nameservers for class IN
> 
> I'm guessing this is because I don't have a root.hints file setup on the
> internal machine?? I only want that machine to forward to the primary DNS
> server....as soon as I took out
> 
> forward only;
> I STILL get this:
> 
> Jul  1 13:19:30 dns1 named[145]: No root nameservers for class IN
> 
> but none of the other errors.....
> 
> Can anyone shed some light?
> 
> Thanks
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
> 
	My bet is you are running BIND 8.2 which had a broker forward only;
	mode.  If so upgrade to BIND 8.2.1

	Mark
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