The DNS has been running fine since I updated to the latest and greatest
root.cache. I'm not sure if this fixed things or if we've been lucky for
the last week or so.
Following are the original post and the replies received.
Thanks to all those who sent suggestions.
-Bill
Original Post*******************************************************
I'm seeing some strange things with our two DNS server.
Alpha is the primary
Beta is the secondary, feeds off of Alpha.
Both systems are on the same network, running on the machine type and
version DU v3.2c.
On Beta:
> set type=mx
> caiu.k12.pa.us
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
*** localhost can't find caiu.k12.pa.us: Server failed
> server alpha
Default Server: alpha.dickinson.edu
Address: 192.102.232.1
> caiu.k12.pa.us
Server: alpha.dickinson.edu
Address: 192.102.232.1
Non-authoritative answer:
caiu.k12.pa.us preference = 0, mail exchanger = www.caiu.k12.pa.us
caiu.k12.pa.us preference = 20, mail exchanger = quasar.voicenet.com
(blaa,blaa,blaa)
>From the nslookup man page
Server failure
The name server found an internal inconsistency in its
database and could not return a valid answer.
How does one trace and fix this inconsistency?
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From: Richard Eisenman <eisenman_at_tricity.wsu.edu>
I've had this problem under 3.2C for some time. It isn't frequent
enough, in my case, to be a serious problem. I just restart the DNS
server whenever I begin to see trouble. If there's a permanent fix, I'd
like to know about it as well. I was just going to upgrade the DNS
service at my next opportunity.
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From: grscott_at_grscott.is.ge.com
Bill,
I don't have the answer to your question, but you can try posting it to the
"comp.protocols.dns.bind" newsgroup. Crickett Liu (co-author of DNS & BIND]
seems to be a regular participant in that group.
Richard
> I'm seeing some strange things with our Primary and Secondary DNS servers,
> on the same net, practically identical machines running v3.2c....
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>From roberto_at_eurocontrol.fr Thu Mar 6 10:16:16 1997
According to Bill Sadvary:
> Feb 27 08:21:21 alpha named[20642]: ns_req: no address for rootserver
Do you have the latest root.cache file ? The last update was from January,
22nd.
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From: "Jon E. Price" <jon_at_nytimes.com>
I recently sent a message to the Digital mailing list asking about our dns
problem.
A couple people suggested installing the latest internet version of dns. The
thing is I don't want to go off installing software without knowing that it
will fix the problem. But maybe in this case we will since it the internet
version has more bug fixes etc. in it too.
Jon
Here are two response I received:
1.
> Dec's named has horrendous memory leak problems.
> Get the latest version from Paul Vixie's Internet Software Consortium,
> which now maintins BIND and INN.
>
> The official location for BIND is <URL:http://www.isc.org/isc/>,
> or <URL:ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/bind/> if you can't do HTTP.
>
2.
Looks like advantis.com has a lame delegation for ibm.net. You should get
the latest version of bind from the net as it has code to detect and ignore
this.
Received on Thu Mar 06 1997 - 18:26:45 NZDT