RNDC major problem (need help)

[Eric Allard]

I didn't get anything in my logfiles. It blocks on writing the dump file.
It begin to write the dump file and then stop. I get only the begining
of the file.

I use solaris 8 on sun and compiled with gcc 3.0.


Pete Ehlke wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 10:42:42AM -0400, Eric Allard wrote:
>
>>I just upgrade my slave dns server from the version 8.3.1 to 9.2.1 that
>>I use with a master server using bind version 8.3.1. When I try the
>>command "rndc dumdb" on my slave server, I don't get any answers and
>>the process is not responding and the named does't answer during this
>>time. I have to kill the process "kill -9 'cat /var/run/named.pid'" and
>>restart the process to get back my dns answering. We are ISP with
>>about 2000 zones and know that we certainly have a big cache.
>>
>Well, if you're running a proper DNS architecture, and have separated
>your authoritative service from your recursive service, you shouldn't
>have any cache at all on your authoritative servers. bind 9 does not
>dump authoritative or hint data on a dumpdb.
>
>That said, what is in your log files at the time you attempt to dump the
>cache? Is named blocking on a write to the dump file?
>
>-Pete
>