sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)

[Christian Krackowizer]

Hi,

well, there are a lot of these messages in the newsgroups, but I've tested 
a bit and maybe someone can bring some light into this:
sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
This message was logged after a restart of named 8.4.1. As all root-servers 
(A-M) were logged and the whole thing was looping thus filling up the 
logfile in enormous speed, I stopped named. I checked the hints file, it 
looked ok. Started named again, same thing. I stripped down the hints file 
to only 2 root-servers (A and B), restarted named - same thing BUT why does  
it claim about C-M ? I checked the sources, I checked for another hints 
file - nothing, so it must come from somewhere else. the forwarders! I 
commented the forwarders - restarted and everything's fine.
? how can the forwarder (one in my case) cause my named to hang ? logging 
incorrectly is one thing but looping! is this a bug ?
  
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Christian Krackowizer
Schuler Business Solutions GmbH