DNS subdomain problem

[Kevin Darcy]

Lars Bakke wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I've set up a DNS server for a subdomain I've delegated from my root domain.
> everything seems to work ok, but I keep getting these entries in the
> messages file:
>
> named[21945]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (name_of_root_server).
>
> I've added the names and ip addresses of the root name servers into my
> root.cache file.
>
> I'm running RedHat 7.0 with Bind 8.2.2 P7-1 on both servers.
>
> What's wrong ?  Any suggestions ?

The hints file is just that: *hints* about where to get root zone data. It is
not a substitute for a real root zone. So if you left the A records out of your
root zone, you'd get exactly the results you're seeing.


- Kevin