One (but only one) of our recursive nameservers, running BIND 9.8.3-P4 we got a whole lot of messages in the log as a result of last week's change of address for d.root-servers.net:
Jan 4 06:24:08 recdns1.csx.cam.ac.uk named[9496]: general: warning: checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (128.8.10.90) missing from hints Jan 4 06:24:08 recdns1.csx.cam.ac.uk named[9496]: general: warning: checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (199.7.91.13) extra record in hints Jan 4 06:24:09 recdns1.csx.cam.ac.uk named[9496]: general: warning: checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (128.8.10.90) missing from hints Jan 4 06:24:09 recdns1.csx.cam.ac.uk named[9496]: general: warning: checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (199.7.91.13) extra record in hints [... 1972 pairs of messages omitted ...] Jan 4 08:50:05 recdns1.csx.cam.ac.uk named[9496]: general: warning: checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (128.8.10.90) missing from hints Jan 4 08:50:05 recdns1.csx.cam.ac.uk named[9496]: general: warning: checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (199.7.91.13) extra record in hints Jan 4 08:50:08 recdns1.csx.cam.ac.uk named[9496]: general: warning: checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (128.8.10.90) missing from hints Jan 4 08:50:08 recdns1.csx.cam.ac.uk named[9496]: general: warning: checkhints: d.root-servers.net/A (199.7.91.13) extra record in hints And then they stopped. Now I can more or less work out what provoked the first message. We had already changed our root hints file the previous day (and done an rndc reconfig) but the old A record for d.root-servers.net was still in the cache (and was still there much later on 4 January as I explicitly did an rndc flushname on it for other reasons). One of our regular checking jobs at 06:24 will have used this recursive nameserver to look up the NS records for "." and the address records for the *.root-servers.net names so referenced. But why did it keep going on and on about it? And what made it stop? Has anyone else seen anything similar? -- Chris Thompson Email: c...@cam.ac.uk _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
