Named hiccups on NetBSD

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 01:00:34PM -0700, Mark R. Nathan wrote:
> On 7/25/00, Joseph S D Yao wanted to tell me:
> >On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 02:01:04AM -0700, Mark R. Nathan wrote:
> >>  today I found Named had a hiccup causing the server to be
> >>  non-responsive to telnet, DNS, etc.. until I walked over to the
> >>  keyboard connected to the server and whacked the enter key.
> >>  Everything woke up all the sudden.  At the time I did this the server
> >>  was at the login prompt. The logs have no errors recorded so I am a
> >>  bit baffled.
> >>
> >>  Would/could this be a NAMED issue or a NetBSD error?
> >
> >Given that this was a single incident, it could even more likely be a
> >co-incidence.  Was your server evidencing any other activity at the
> >time?
> 
> Hi Joe..
> 
> Funny thing this was.  It happened somewhere close to when the syslog 
> restarted..
> 
> I *think* it happened a second time few days back.. looked in my logs 
> and all I found was the log restarting..

Hmmm!  Could it be blocking on syslog() output?  To syslogd ... or to
the console?

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