[Q] sysquery: nlookup error on server?

[Thor Kottelin]

BIND Users Mailing List wrote:

> From: Andres Tello Abrego <criptos at gondor.gdl.iteso.mx>

> But this dns cannot resolve any other name outside my locals names...

> > Feb 19 11:12:07 server named[18363]: No root nameservers for class IN

Your server doesn't know how to find a root server.

Make sure your named.conf points to a proper hint zone, e.g. (assuming
BIND 8.2.2-P5):

zone "." {
	type hint;			// used to be specified w/ "cache"
	file "cache.db";	
};

The file (in this example, cache.db) needs to contain valid hints, e.g.:

.			3600000	NS	A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	198.41.0.4
.			3600000	NS	B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	128.9.0.107
.			3600000 NS	C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	192.33.4.12
.			3600000 NS	D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	128.8.10.90
.			3600000 NS	E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	192.203.230.10
.			3600000 NS	F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	192.5.5.241
.			3600000 NS	G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	192.112.36.4
.			3600000 NS	H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	128.63.2.53
.			3600000 NS	I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	192.36.148.17
.			3600000 NS	J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	198.41.0.10
.			3600000 NS	K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	193.0.14.129 
.			3600000 NS	L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	198.32.64.12
.			3600000 NS	M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.	3600000 A	198.32.65.12

Thor

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