BIND MESSAGES

[Kevin Darcy]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <a391lj$24o at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
> Joaquin J. Domens <jdomens at corp.terra.es> wrote:
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I`m running two machines as dns caches /or forwarders with BIND 8.2.3,
> >            options {
> >                directory "/var/named";
> >                files 2048;
> >                forward only;
> >                forwarders { XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX; };
> >
> >and I=B4m getting this messages in both machines
> >
> >Jan 27 19:17:23 tdns2 named[26301]: check_root: 1 root servers after
> >query to root server < min
> >Jan 27 20:41:08 tdns2 named[26301]: check_root: 1 root servers after
> >query to root server < min
>
> When named starts up, it performs a query for the root nameservers, to
> update the list it got from the hints file.  When tdns2 asked its
> forwarders for the list of root servers, it returned just one nameserve=
r.
> Since there are normally about a dozen, it warns that the list of root
> servers seems wrong.
>
> Although tdns2 doesn't ever query the root servers itself, it expects
> XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX to do so when necessary.  If XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX has an
> incorrect root server list, it won't be able to look up external names.=
  If
> you're isolated from the Internet and using a private root then this is=
n't
> a problem, so you can ignore the warning.

Note that the "min-roots" option can be used to shut named up about only =
having 1
root nameserver, but from a performance/reliability standpoint, you shoul=
d have at
least 2.


- Kevin