BIND 8.2.1 creating lots of CPU usage for syslogd and named

[Michael Voight]

Marcel Janssen wrote:
> 
> Michael van Elst wrote:
> >
> > Apparently the machine doesn't know its own name without querying
> > the nameserver. This often means that you haven't entered the
> > name into /etc/hosts, but more likely, you use a search order
> > of 'hosts: dns, files' or only 'hosts: dns' in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> >
> > The result ist that syslog tries to resolve the origin of each
> > log message and thus creates a new query and a new log message
> > in an endless recursion.
> >
> 
> I already tried "host: files dns". It doesn't matter.
> 
> Marcel

It's not going to matter. It isn't going to be much better if it
continues to get the name out of a host file. The question is why it is
looking in the first place. Your syslog config should not reference a
hostname in the message destination, it should only show a file.
This is NOT a DNS problem. DNS is getting the queries.

Michael