no addrs found for root NS

[Kevin Darcy]

If you are using forwarding, you shouldn't have a root hints file at
all. So, in exactly what file did you "remark[] the root server
IP addresses"??


- Kevin

Tan Chun Han/ITNOC/PBB/PBBG wrote:

> I don't think there's a need to lookup on the root servers,
> as all the our lookups are done by our forwarder (ISP's DNS)
>
> regards
>
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Tan Chun Han/ITNOC/PBB/PBBG on
> 05/06/2002 07:41 PM ---------------------------
>
> Bill Manning <bmanning at ISI.EDU>@isc.org on 05/06/2002 07:03:37 PM
>
> Sent by:  bind-users-bounce at isc.org
>
> To:   tanch at publicbank.com.my
> cc:   bind-users at isc.org
>
> Subject:  Re: no addrs found for root NS
>
> %
> % Dear all,
> %
> % Want to find out what causes the below error messages,
> % we have disabled the nslookup to external root serves
> % by remarking the root server IP addresses in the conf file.
> %
> % "svdns001 named[5682]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS ()"
> %
> % and....anyway to disable the query to root servers?
> %
> % any comments/suggestions are appreciated.
> %
> % Thanks
> % Tan Chun Han
> %
>
>      the error messages is caused by your "disabling
>      nslookup".  Why do you do this?
>
>      there are several ways to disable queries to the
>      root servers. it is generally not useful to do so.
>
>      again, why are you doing this?
>
> --
> --bill