a few questions

[John Riehl]

Barry Margolin wrote in message ...
> ns_forw() is used when your server needs to
>query some other server to fulfill a request.  I'm not sure what would
>cause "Operation not permitted", though.  The queries to the root servers
>can take place even if no one is querying you, since one of the first
>things that named does when it starts up is contact a root server to update
>its root server list.  The COM lookup could be due to trying to fetch glue
>records (you can disable this with the "fetch-glue no" option).


Thanks for the info.   I understand much more than I did a couple of days
ago.

Mark Andrews pointed out that the error indicated that this was a network
layer error response.   It was a misconfigured firewall in the kernel.
Thanks again, mark.

jr
riehl at earthlink dot net