BIND MESSAGES
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Jan 30 21:21:53 UTC 2002
> 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´m 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 nameserver.
> 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 isn't
> a problem, so you can ignore the warning.
If this is that case then set "min-roots" in options.
Mark
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