BIND + sysquery: nlookup error on ?

[Roy Arends]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Zbigniew Lipa wrote:

> Hello
>
> does anyone know what this is??
> thanks
>
> Aug 20 11:06:38 aga2000 named[14968]: sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> Aug 20 11:06:44 aga2000 named[14968]: sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> Aug 20 11:06:44 aga2000 named[14968]: sysquery: nlookup error on ?

Yes. Your nameserver does not have hints about the root-server set.

Make sure you have in your named.conf the following statement:

zone "." { type hint; file "named.root"; };

And make sure you have a named.root file. The latest can be found on:
ftp://rs.internic.org/domain/named.root

Regards,

Roy Arends
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