sysquery error reported from bind 8.2.3

[Mark Damrose]

"Eddy" <eddy at jumpstart-services.com> wrote in message
news:abq6q9$veh$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> But... everything else works fine. I can ping the root nameservers, people
> on the web can access my
> web-site, etc.
> Eddy

Ping and web use different protocol/port combinations that DNS.  Do you
allow outbound tcp and udp to destination port 53?  And allow the responses
to come back?


> "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
> news:abpetn$ia1$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> >
> > Sounds like you lack connectivity to the Internet root nameservers.
Could
> be a
> > routing problem, a firewall problem, something like that...
> >
> >
> > - Kevin
> >
> > Eddy wrote:
> >
> > > I can't seem to figure out why I'm getting the following error
reported
> on
> > > my Linux 2.2.14 system:
> > >
> > > named[142]: sysquery: no addrs found for root NS (C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET)
> > >
> > > This is repeated each of the root servers. I have this in my
> /etc/named.conf
> > >
> > > zone "." IN {
> > >
> > > type hint;
> > >
> > > file "/var/named/root.hint";
> > >
> > > };
> > >
> > > and in root.hint I have :
> > >
> > > .. 3600000 NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
> > >
> > > C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.33.4.12
> > >
> > > Each root server is defined per the "named.root" which I downloaded
from
> > > internic.net.
> > >
> > > Can someone point me in the right direction?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Eddy
> >
> >
>
>
>