past messages about problems with bind9

[Ashley_E_Andrews at rush.edu]

I remember seeing several messages similar to this one below earlier this
month.  The main symptom was that the server was hanging after about a
day or so.  I was wondering if any resolution was found for those issues
we read about and what OS was being used.  We are trying to make a
determination about upgrading to Bind 9.1.

Any found solutions to share would be appreciated.


Josh Grebe wrote:


> Greetings,
>  > I'm running a mixture of bind9 systems, my main server is 9.1.1rc2 as are
> most of my secondary servers, one of them is 9.1.0. I'm seeing a problem
> where after bind has been running for a while, so 18-20 hours on my
> busiest server, that it will hang and not answer requests any more until I
> restart it. This server is slaving about 5500 authoritvative domains, and
> is has a large base of users (75-80k) who use it for thier nameservice as
> well. I've resorted to a cron job that restarts named every hour, which
> takes care of the problem in the immediate sense. The server is an x86
> Linux box, running 2.2.16 on a K6-3 450, with plenty of ram. I also have
> seen this come up (not as quickly) on a much less used server that is only
> slaving maybe 800 domains, running on a x86 Solaris 2.6 box.
>  > Has anyone seen this type of behaviour with bind9? Is ther any other
> information I can provide that may be helpful?
>  > Thanks,
>  > Josh
>  > ---
> Josh Grebe
> Senior Unix Systems Administrator
> Primary Network, an MPower Company
> http://www.primary.net >  >  >  >