On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, will trillich wrote: > i've gotten a strange DNS/NAMED/BIND error message: > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mar 12 10:36:45 server named[2991]: No root nameservers for class CHAOS > > where do i look to determine whether or not this is important? > and what to do about it, if so?
It's not terribly important, and I'd do a grep on your entire /var/named (or wherever your zone files live) for CHAOS... Basically, there are three classes of address that BIND supports... >From O'Reilly's DNS/BIND book: A.1.5 Classes (From RFC 1035, page 13) CLASS fields appear in resource records. The following CLASS mnemonics and values are defined: IN 1 the Internet CS 2 the CSNET class (obsolete - used only for examples in some obsolete RFCs) CH 3 the CHAOS class HS 4 the Hesiod class You might want to consult RFC 1035 for more info :) The most useful thing I can think of for the CHAOS class is the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. 0 That'll only work on real nslookup's, which doesn't include the current Debian one which complains about being deprecated... gdh