On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:34:30PM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Ihsan Dogan wrote:
> 
> > Aug 30 22:22:52 defiant named[117]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> ...
> 
> > It was not possible, to do any queries. ndc reload didn't work
> > either. After I killed named, I started it again and it's working
> > fine again.
> 
> Maybe there was a typo which caused named to not recognize your hints
> file (usually /etc/namedb/root.cache) correctly.
> 
> (Or maybe you had forwarders that forwarded to a temporarily broken
> DNS server?)

this has happened to me before as well.  the way I figured it, the
forwarders I had listed were answering enough of my queries that bind
never got a chance to ask the root name servers any questions and hence
never refreshed them.

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