AW: root servers

[Kevin Darcy]

I think you're describing a "forwarding" server, not a "slave" server.
A "slave" server would replicate zones from a master.

Is your nameserver configured as "forward only"? If not, then it will try
to query Internet nameservers (including root servers) directly whenever
the queries to the forwarders time out. That would explain the log
messages you are getting.


- Kevin


Mueller, Thomas wrote:

> I'm sorry.
>
> I forget to say that it is a slave server.......it just forwards the
> ns-queries
> to the main DNS.
> I think that's the problem.........huh?
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jim Reid [mailto:jim at rfc1035.com]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. August 2001 13:19
> An: Michael Kjorling
> Cc: BIND-Users
> Betreff: Re: root servers
>
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kjorling <michael at kjorling.com> writes:
>
>     Michael> I have a cron job set up to run once a month to grab the
>     Michael> newest list of root servers (which, by the way, hasn't
>     Michael> changed since Aug '00):
>
> There is no need for this. Although keeping an up to date copy of the
> roots hints file is a good thing, a monthly update is overkill. Your
> name server only uses that file at start-up to send a query to find
> the actual names and addresses of the root servers, that's all. The
> root servers haven't changed in years and are unlikely to change for a
> long time, probably never. The current file at ftp.rs.internic.net has
> a change date from August last year. However the file's contents have
> not changed for much longer than that. It has a comment saying the
> file was last updated in August 1997!