bind-9.3.2 / CPU issue.
Daniel Ryslink
daniel.ryslink at col.cz
Fri Aug 18 09:23:31 UTC 2006
Hello,
Some more details concerning this issue - we run BIND on FreeBSD and
experience the problem, so it's probably platform independent.
Strange thing is that we have tried to experimentally deploy an
alternative nameserver with dnscache (part of djbdns) instead of BIND. The
problem occured as well, which leads to a hypothesis that it's not
actually a BIND specific problem, but perhaps some kind of attack or
specific characteristic of DNS query structure in certain enviroments.
Just a thought.
Daniel Ryslink
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Kelsey Cummings wrote:
> FWIW, I've seen similar behavior on some of our recusive servers in
> specific roles. The only thing that might be unusual about our config is
> that a very high portion of the requests are going to forwarded zones.
>
> It's be a consistent problem for us through all versions of bind 9 - we've
> had to us bind 8 to keep them stable. We suspected it could be a problem
> with our compiler/libraries but the problem consistently occurs regardless
> of what distribution or version we try to run. (All linux.)
>
> It seems to be load related - only affects two of our internal recursors
> that do ~1k reqs/sec whereas our other more lightly loaded servers don't
> exhibit the same exact symptoms (although they also have been known to spin
> on the CPU.)
>
> --
> Kelsey Cummings - kgc at corp.sonic.net sonic.net, inc.
> System Architect 2260 Apollo Way
> 707.522.1000 Santa Rosa, CA 95407
>
>
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