Constant errors: "sysquery: no addrs found for root NS"

[Kevin Darcy]

I'm not sure why the behavior would change from 8.2.2-p7 to 8.2.3, but "no addrs found for root NS" usually means that your hints file is missing one or more A records, or you're trying to use an Internet hints file without having any access to the Internet root nameservers.

In either case, it seems likely that your hints file is implicated. What does it look like?

Maybe the behavior *hasn't* changed. Maybe the problem's always been there but a subtle change to the logging categories and/or severities is now making it visible.

                                                                                                                                        - Kevin

Steve Snyder wrote:

> Below is a snippet of my system log, from a (Linux, kernel v2.2.18)
> system which is running BIND v8.2.3.  I upgraded from v8.2.2-P7 a few
> days ago and have had minor problems ever since.
>
> Note that BIND has suddenly decided to complain roughly every 5
> minutes.  Or perhaps some process is periodically calling BIND.
> Either way, this is with the same set of config/zone files that worked
> so well with v8.2.2-P7.  (Both versions of BIND were built from
> RedHat's v6.2 RPMs.)
>
> I'd be happy to show any config and/or zone files which would help in
> diagnosing this problem.
>
> Any ideas on this?  Thank you.
>
> --------------------------
>
> Feb  7 21:32:00 sunspot named[28111]: Cleaned cache of 34 RRsets
> Feb  7 21:32:00 sunspot named[28111]: USAGE 981599520 981095514 CPU=0.5u/0.27s CHILDCPU=0u/0s
> Feb  7 21:32:00 sunspot named[28111]: NSTATS 981599520 981095514 A=855 NS=558 PTR=128 ANY=8
> Feb  7 21:32:00 sunspot named[28111]: XSTATS 981599520 981095514 RR=641 RNXD=9 RFwdR=444 RDupR=5 RFail=6 RFErr=0 RErr=0 RAXFR=0 RLame=0 ROpts=0 SSysQ=166 SAns=1538 SFwdQ=461 SDupQ=74 SErr=0 RQ=1549 RIQ=0 RFwdQ=461 RDupQ=10 RTCP=0 SFwdR=444 SFail=0 SFErr=0 SNaAns=1234 SNXD=32 RUQ=0 RURQ=0 RUXFR=0 RUUpd=0
> Feb  7 22:24:45 sunspot named[28111]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (localhost)
> Feb  7 22:24:45 sunspot named[28111]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS ()

> [etc.]