Bind 4.9.11 under Solaris 8

[Gavin Hurlbut]

Sorry for the double posting of basically the same question.  I moved shortly
after the moderator message came back for the first and didn't see it go out :)

Sorry for any inconvenience.
Gavin

Quoting Gavin Hurlbut <gjhurlbu+bind-users at beirdo.ca>:

> Hello all.
> 
> I'm in the process of performing a series of upgrades to take some BIND
> 4.9.11
> servers and upgrade them to BIND 9.2.x.  The first stage is to do a
> "forklift
> upgrade" by replacing the ix86 Solaris 2.6 boxes with Sparc Solaris 8
> boxes,
> while still running BIND 4.9.11.  This is being done to maintain the
> current
> service level while planning a smooth transition to BIND 9.2.x.
> 
> I have compiled it, and have it starting up from a script in /etc/rc2.d,
> however it seems to have troubles starting.  The system runs out of swap
> resources, even with 4G of swap.  It seems to spawn several hundred forked
> children, causing named to run out of memory, along with the rest of the 
> system.  However, if I run it from a shell, or start it from an at job, it 
> starts up just fine.  Once it is started, it seems to be operational.
> 
> Has anyone out there got any idea what might be causing this behaviour?  It
> 
> seems to happen during the initial zone loading, however, I don't
> understand
> why as I don't see any loops with fork() or variants in it in my quick scan
> through the code.
> 
> While I realize that not many people are still running 4.9.x, I'd really
> like
> to get these servers running so I can retire the old machines that are
> getting
> rather aged.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Gavin
> 




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