Hello. I'm using Redhat 9 and the packages bind and caching-nameserver inclosed in the release for have a dns-cache for my home computers,not high traffic(with Redhat 8 I had the same problem). If I do a "dig ns" about one or two hours after star computer ,first is "missing" in the additional section a.root-servers.net ,after b.root-servers.net ,and the last is j.root-servers.net,this last survive many hours or days,but after goes down too,and when this goes down bind goes down too. This is the screen of a "dig ns" ; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> ns ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 35049 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 13, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;. IN NS ;; ANSWER SECTION: . 513028 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 513028 IN NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 599428 IN A 192.58.128.30 ;; Query time: 6 msec ;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1) ;; WHEN: Sun May 18 00:17:42 2003 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 244 At this point I only have J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. in the additioal section,restarting machine the problem is solved,but I would like find the problem. If I do a "service named stop" bind continue running,at least if I do a "dig ns" after the dig ns answer me well from my machine,not use second or third dns because first not stopped. If I do "service named stop" and after "service named start" config is not reloaded,the service never stopped and never reloaded the data,only J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. is found in the addtional section. If Anyone had any idea of what can I do,any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks Josep
