Error - BIND 8.2.3 - no addrs found for root NS

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Abbott <davea at dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes:

    Dave> We are running BIND 8.2.3 and are seeing fairly regular log
    Dave> messages as follows:

    Dave> May 15 10:12:48 cedar named[14317]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
    Dave> named does not report any errors or other problems at
    Dave> startup.

    Dave> Can anyone enlighten me as to what causes these error
    Dave> messages?

It looks like you name servers don't know about the root zone and
can't find the root servers. Have you got a hints zone{} statement for
the root zone? If so, what's in it? If this is OK, maybe you have a
firewall or router that's blocking queries or answers to/from your
server. Post the named.conf file and name server's log messages at
start-up if you need more help.

And PLEASE DON'T put NOSPAM crap in your email address. It doesn't
prevent or reduce spam. I beleive most of the address harvesters
spammers use know how to filter out NOSPAM parts of the address. The
comp.protocols.dns.bind newsgroup is gatewayed into a mailing list
(bind-users at isc.org). So providing an unreplyable email addresses is
very anti-social. All you do is annoy anyone that takes the time to
answer your posting and reply to you.