Problem resolving some domains

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Oct 17 14:19:48 UTC 2001


> 
> <9qige0$hr6 at pub3.rc.vix.com> divulged:
> 
> >> >> I cannot resolve sone domains (e.g. www.passau.de or www.passau.de).
> >> 
> >> >	The length of the chain of nameservers required to resolve
> >> >	this particular name is to long for BIND 4 to succeed.
> 
> >	Start with a empty cache.
> 
> as empty as i can arrange ...
> 
> ,----
> | root at alvarez:/# skill -v /usr/sbin/named
> | > sent #23882 a TERM (named executing /usr/sbin/named)
> | root at alvarez:/# su - named -c /usr/sbin/named

	You really expect us to believe that named started and
	bound itself to a reserved port when running as the user
	named.

	This is a well known limitation of BIND 4 and BIND 8 (<8.3).

	Mark
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