[304] in Hesiod
Re: Root nameservers for class 4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Feb 9 02:03:52 1996
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 02:01:13 -0500
To: aek@gte.doe.gov (Alan Klink)
Cc: hesiod@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[303] in Hesiod"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> I hope that I am sending this to the right place. I have recently
> replaced the main nameserver for doe.gov which used to run Sun's
> version of bind with a new machine running Bind 4.9.2 We had some
> users that wished for TXT and WKS records that weren't supported on
> the other system.
Please replace it with bind 4.9.3-REL, patchlevel 1.
Bind 4.9.2 was never released out of beta, and was horribly buggy, and
no one should be using it.
> No root nameservers for class 4
>
> I looked in my O'Reilly DNS and BIND book and found that was the
> Hesiod class. Looking in the book further, it mentions "For more
> information on the Hesiod work, mail to hesiod@athena.mit.edu." So
> here I am.
Such are the follies of consulting 3rd party documentation -- did you
check the Bind Operations Guide, first?
> What kind of problems with this apparent error cause me?
Not many, it means someone asked your server some hesiod queries. If
you're using hesiod at your site, you need to tell your server who the
hesiod roots are. If you're not, then you can ignore it, it's just
someone asking your server stuff it doesn't know about (?).
> I apologize if this is the incorrect place to ask this question.
bind-users@vix.com (aka bind@uunet.uu.net or info.bind) is probably
the right place, though you're expected to be on the mailing list before
asking, I think; comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains would also serve.
--jhawk
John Hawkinson
