BIND incompatibility

[Doug Barton]

Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Just want to remind about a problem I've finally run into myself.
> There has been a lot of gossip on it, but next to no tech details.
> Namely, BIND8 will go nuts and spit out tons of error messages per
> second if its forwarder happens to be BIND9 and "forwarders only"
> is not in effect.  The error message reads:
> 
> 	sysquery: no addrs found for root NS
> 
> I saw that after two my DNS servers had been upgraded today along
> their respective branches, 4-STABLE and 6-STABLE, which had involved
> no changes to named.conf or named.root.
> 
> Has anybody got links to tech details why the trouble happens?
> Sorry, today I had little time for debugging and tcpdumping, just
> had to make sure it all worked by the end of the day :-)

Not 100% sure from your description, but it's possible that you're falling
victim to the problem described here:

http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/bind8.php

hth,

Doug

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