I am having a weird problem this morning. The named service
stopped working. The symptoms are as follows:
In daemon.log:
Nov 5 10:50:17 <system> named[12730: ns_req:
sendto([127.0.0.1].0): Can't assign requested address
On the command line:
% nslookup www.microsoft.com
*** Can't find server name for address 127.0.0.1: BAD ERROR VALUE
*** Default servers are not available
%
I restarted the named service and it had no effect.
I restarted internet services (netsetup) and it worked once, then
proceeded to fail again.
When I rebooted, the problem seems to have gone away (at least for
the 10 minutes the system has been up so far.
System: Alpha 2100 4/275 with two cpu's running DU 3.2D-1 (with
various patches to fix multi-cpu locking problems).
If anyone has seen this before or can suggest a solution, please
let me know ASAP as this is a production system and we can't
afford much down time.
Regards,
Mandell Degerness
(mdegerness_at_galaxy.gov.bc.ca)
Received on Tue Nov 05 1996 - 22:15:42 NZDT