bind 9 dying

[Kevin Darcy]

I'm not sure why your BIND is stopping in the first place, but from the
log messages it would appear that the reason you have to reload twice to
get it working properly is because the master for c.b.a.in-addr.arpa is
taking too long to respond to your zone transfer request.


- Kevin

raytodd at kiva.net wrote:

> I have updated to bind 9.2.0 and now the name server is periodically
> stopping providing services.  (about once a week)  It takes HUPing it
> twice to get it to provide services again.  When it dies it stops
> putting any entries in the syslog.  The first hup provides a stats
> report and then a message that it is being reloaded.  the reload
> generates an error.  The second HUP succeeds.  Here is a log file
> excerpt.
>
> Dec  9 21:47:53 main named[2056]: USAGE 1007952473 1007351440
> CPU=48.13u/20.72s
> CHILDCPU=0u/0.13s
> Dec  9 21:47:53 main named[2056]: NSTATS 1007952473 1007351440 0=2
> A=20472 NS=1
> CNAME=25 SOA=28651 PTR=20039 MX=1044 TXT=5 AAAA=43 SRV=393 38=26
> ANY=4401
> Dec  9 21:47:53 main named[2056]: XSTATS 1007952473 1007351440
> RR=34609 RNXD=238
> 8 RFwdR=22643 RDupR=124 RFail=395 RFErr=0 RErr=64 RAXFR=0 RLame=383
> ROpts=0 SSys
> Q=7201 SAns=50832 SFwdQ=19946 SDupQ=2494 SErr=103 RQ=75441 RIQ=5
> RFwdQ=0 RDupQ=1
> 88 RTCP=6918 SFwdR=22643 SFail=5 SFErr=0 SNaAns=39452 SNXD=11269
> Dec  9 21:47:53 main named[2056]: Cleaned cache of 1952 RRsets
> Dec  9 21:47:53 main named[2056]: reloading nameserver
> Dec  9 21:47:53 main named[2056]: Err/TO getting serial# for
> "c.b.a.in-addr  (Changed to protect the guilty)
> .arpa"
> Dec  9 21:47:53 main named[2056]: Forwarding source address is
> [0.0.0.0].4878
> Dec  9 21:47:53 main named[2056]: Ready to answer queries.
> Dec  9 21:49:04 main named[2056]: reloading nameserver
>
> Any idea what is happening?
> -------------------
> Ray Todd Stevens           raytodd at kiva.net
> Senior Consultant          RR # 14 Box 1400
> Stevens Services           Bedford, IN  47421
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