Bind 8.2.2 P5 hanging up...

[Philip L. Butler]

I am sorry I haven't responded to all of the comments made in the 
last week.  I have been out of town.

I am still trying to make sense of all the comments - looks like lots 
of ideas - but here's a little bit more info for what it's worth.

1) There was some mention of problems with bind 8 on a Linux system. 
I forgot to mention that I had troubles even getting it compiled. 
Here's what I had to do to get bind 8.2.2 P5 to compile on a 
Slackware 2.0.38 kernel:

    * Manually set the .settings file to contain 'linux'.
    * modify the lib/isc makefile to change 'bsdos' to 'linux'
    * run the newly modified bin/isc makefile
    * Run the main makefile for all of bind.

It seems that the configure incorrectly determined that we were 
running on a BSD system and there were massive compile problems.  The 
above seemed to fix it, but I wonder what problems I may have 
introduced by doing the above.

2) I have not yet turned on debugging to see what happens, but will 
be doing so soon.

3) It looks like I need to make sure I have the latest syslog.

4) After looking at the logs of several systems - most of which work 
with 2.0.38/Bind 8.2.2 P5 and two of which don't, I find that:  Both 
systems that hang up have lines like:

>  Feb  3 16:30:18 (none) named[43]: ns_req: sendto([172.23.9.2].137): 
>Connection refused

Specifically port 137 is logged in both of the systems that hang up 
and NONE of the systems that don't.   This may be significant  !!  If 
I recall, port 137 is some kind of netbios thing.  I don't understand 
why this would interfere with bind though -- any words of wisdom out 
there ??

Thanks,

Phil Butler
butler at dii.net