Secondary updates on bind 8.1.2 solaris 7 X86

Jim Reid jim at mpn.cp.philips.com
Sat Oct 30 21:35:51 UTC 1999


>>>>> "Greg" == S0LARlSTEK  <S0LARlSTEK at aol.com> writes:


    Greg> It looks my secondary name server had a core dump of over
    Greg> 233 mega bytes.  Is there any particular reason this would
    Greg> happen.  I am running bind 8.1.2 as default in solaris 7 X86.

Check with Sun for a patch. There was a memory leak in the version of
BIND8 that was shipped with Solaris. This caused named to grow in size
until it hit the OS limits on process size. It looks like you may hve
been hit by that bug.


More information about the bind-users mailing list