named shuts down

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Thanks for the information, guys  -
> 
> I'm running on RedHat 6.1 (in the background)
> 
> Here's the startup message:
> 
> Jan 15 20:50:32 server named[5258]: starting.  named 8.2.2-P7 Fri Nov 10
> 11:12:5
> 3 EST 2000 ^Iprospector at porky.devel.redhat.com:/usr/src/bs/BUILD/bind-
> 8.2.2_P7/s
> rc/bin/named
> 
> So I guess Mark's point about this version being known to SIGTERM itself
> could be relevant.
> 
> If this is just an isolated incident, I'd maybe assume this is what has
> happened. I shall turn on the debugging for a while and see what
> happens:-)
> 
> Should I be upgrading to a later version of BIND?
> 

	Yes, though I would hold off for 8.2.3 or 9.1.

> Thanks again
> 
> Peter Rose
> London UK
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In message <NEBBLGLDKLMMGKEMEFMFEEOACDAA.mathias at koerber.org>, Mathias
> Körber <mathias at koerber.org> writes
> >
> >Hmm.  It's hard to say..
> >
> >Seems something is actively sutting it down, rather than
> >it crashing.
> >
> >A few things you can do/tell:
> >
> >a) What version of BIND are you running=20
> >       - post the log messages at startup
> >b) What environment? (O/S)
> >c) Turn on at least debug level 1 and watch the logs
> >d) Could any process be sending named a signal to make it shut down?
> >   Are you running named in foreground mode attached to a shell and
> >   it goes down when you exit?
> >e) checkyour other logfiles, and make sure syslog logs all levels of =
> >messages
> >   somewhere. You may be missing messages that are not logged due to =
> >syslog
> >   settings.
> >
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