DNS problem

[Ben Kelly]

Scott Harrison wrote:
> 
> On May 13, 2004, at 15:47, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> 
>> Scott Harrison wrote this message on Thu, May 13, 2004 at 14:50 -0400:
>>
>>>     Can someone either tell me what needs to be done to get rid of these
>>> messages, or tell me which mailing list I should ask?
>>
>>
>> Most likely your named.root is out of date.  Last week b.root-servers.net
>> changed IP address and took my dns server off line.  Do a:
>> dig @198.41.0.4 . ns > /etc/namedb/named.root
>>
>> and then restart your name server.. That should fix things for you.
>>
>> but for future reference, this is not a FreeBSD issue, a generic
>> bind/internet question.
>>
>>
>     My named.root has been updated so appears to be correct.  The 
> b.root-servers.net IP address I have is 192.228.79.201 so I think 
> everything is fine there.
> 
>     Unlike others I have this problem regularly.  Every time I make my 
> server do a DNS lookup it puts a lot of lines into /var/log/messages, 
> but luckily for me I have not filled /var up.  This has been happening 
> for many days now and I have not been able to find any real answers 
> using google.
> 

Are you restricting outgoing DNS requests at your firewall?  I made this 
mistake the first time I tried setting up bind.  (Incidentally, ever 
since this happened the first line in my dmesg output has been corrupt.)