sysquery error reported from bind 8.2.3

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed May 15 20:14:20 UTC 2002


Well, "forward first" isn't going to do anything unless you also have a
"forwarders" clause, and if you have both of those, you'll be getting your
root-zone information from the forwarders (assuming they are available) instead
of via your hints file.


- Kevin

Eddy wrote:

> The only thing that is enable is the option "forward first", would that
> cause the problem?
> Eddy
> "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
> news:abselr$242j$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> >
> > Maybe you're experiencing some form of packet corruption/truncation
> (?????)
> >
> > Try a non-recursive query of the root zone NS records using "dig +norec .
> ns
> > @202.12.27.33" or "nslookup -q=ns -norec . @202.12.27.33". Do you get a
> full
> > response back, including the A records for all of the root nameservers?
> >
> > Just a thought: you don't have any forwarding configured, do you?
> >
> >
> > -Kevin
> >
> > Eddy wrote:
> >
> > > I even tried to "telnet a.root-servers.net 53" which did connect. I also
> did
> > > the same from another
> > > server to my server and it connect also. So, outbound and inbound TCP
> > > connection
> > > do work.
> > >
> > > What else could be wrong?
> > >
> > > Eddy
> > > "Mark Damrose" <mdamrose at elgin.cc.il.us> wrote in message
> > > news:abqvfr$1cb1$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> > > > "Eddy" <eddy at jumpstart-services.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:abq6q9$veh$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> > > > > But... everything else works fine. I can ping the root nameservers,
> > > people
> > > > > on the web can access my
> > > > > web-site, etc.
> > > > > Eddy
> > > >
> > > > Ping and web use different protocol/port combinations that DNS.  Do
> you
> > > > allow outbound tcp and udp to destination port 53?  And allow the
> > > responses
> > > > to come back?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:abpetn$ia1$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Sounds like you lack connectivity to the Internet root
> nameservers.
> > > > Could
> > > > > be a
> > > > > > routing problem, a firewall problem, something like that...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Kevin
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Eddy wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > I can't seem to figure out why I'm getting the following error
> > > > reported
> > > > > on
> > > > > > > my Linux 2.2.14 system:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > named[142]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> > > (C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This is repeated each of the root servers. I have this in my
> > > > > /etc/named.conf
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > zone "." IN {
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > type hint;
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > file "/var/named/root.hint";
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > };
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > and in root.hint I have :
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > .. 3600000 NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.33.4.12
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Each root server is defined per the "named.root" which I
> downloaded
> > > > from
> > > > > > > internic.net.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Can someone point me in the right direction?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > thanks,
> >
> >



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