No root nameservers for class in

[Michael Voight]

There is a problem.
The first message indicate the machine was master for ".", but the file
referenced was NOT a full zone file. It was a root hints file...

Michael

Jim Reid wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Eva" == Eva Felipe <Eva.Felipe at uab.ericsson.se> writes:
> 
>     Eva> I have recently installed bind-8.2.1 but can't get it to work.
> 
>     Eva> The log message is 'No root nameservers for class IN' and
>     Eva> 'SERVFAIL' is returned. The SERVFAIL means I am authoritative
>     Eva> but a zone is not loaded (according to the source code).
> 
> This is a bug in 8.2.1. It reports this error message when the name
> server is authoritative for the root zone even though: (a) there's
> nothing wrong with the root zone file; (b) the name server knows about
> the root name servers. The error message is generated in error. I
> found this bug in one of the 8.2.1 betas and reported it to the ISC
> just before 8.2.1 was released.
> 
>     Eva> The problem must be in my configuration files but I don't
>     Eva> know where. I have tried my old configuration files (from
>     Eva> bind-8.1.2) without luck.
> 
> The problem's with the 8.2.1 code, not your zone and config files. I'd
> ignore the message for now and hope/pray that this is fixed in 8.2.2.
> OTOH, ignoring what would otherwise be an important error message like
> "can't find the root name servers" sets a dangerous precedent: what if
> some other name server generates this message for real?