DNS dying

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 11:02:10PM +0100, Jim Reid wrote:
...
> The name server should print a message in the system logs if it
> encounters a fatal error: like running out of memory or being unable
> to set up sockets on port 53. ...
...

"Should".  We had a name server [our interface to the outside world]
that, for several weeks, would occasionally die with no record why,
even when we logged EVERYTHING.  I had no chance to do more thorough
debugging before this behaviour stopped.  No change to binaries or
libraries.

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Joe Yao				jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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