Named CPU skyrockets for ActiveX objects in IE 5.5 browser

[Danny Mayer]

At 11:29 PM 5/8/02, JB wrote:

>Interesting...  after I let ActiveX/named(BIND) suck up CPU for about a
>minute, I only got one entry in the Application Log:
>
>     query logging is now on
>
>At least now I know where the logging should go.  Unfortunately, this seems
>to indicate that named is using up CPU without logging why.  I bumped up
>debug level to 3, and refreshed, and still nothing.

If you are running on NT or W2K and you didn't create in named.conf a logging
category for queries, then it will go into the application event log.  Use the
Event Viewer to get to it.

>In addition to ActiveX objects, I was also able to get it to occur for
>ActiveX objects loaded at Dictionary.com.  However, WSJ.com is consistent
>100% of the time.  Dictionary.com seems to rotate its advertisements, so you
>won't always get ActiveX.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Damrose" <mdamrose at elgin.cc.il.us>
>To: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 2:35 PM
>Subject: Re: Named CPU skyrockets for ActiveX objects in IE 5.5 browser
>
>
>"JB" <usenet at joshuabranch.com> wrote in message
>news:abbpha$97m5$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
> > Query logging...  a concept who's time has come.  I turn it on, but can't
>find a log anywhere.  When looking at all the *.LOG files on my hard drive,
>the only one I don't recognize with recent additions is userenv.log.  While
>I'd love to know what that is, and why it gets 5 new entries every 5
>minutes, I suspect it has nothing to do with BIND.
> >
>On unix machine it logs to the standard system log.  Try looking in event
>viewer.

Danny