Heavy CPU utilization - files included

[Danny Mayer]

Get rid of this record in db.telenyheder.dk.  This is likely to be causing
problems.
*       IN      CNAME   telenyheder.dk.

         Danny

At 05:48 PM 5/10/02, Jan Hansen wrote:
>Hi everybody,
>
>I've just installed BIND 9.2.1 on my 2 win2k servers - with a lot of help
>that is - so I'm very new to this BIND thing ;o)
>
>The problem is that on one of the servers (the primary DNS), the general CPU
>utilization goes to 100 % all the time after the ISC BIND service is
>started - allmost. The named.exe process constantly uses between 30 and 70 %
>of the CPU, resulting in timeouts from outlook clients connecting to the
>mailserver (MDaemon, if that has any influence). On the other server (the
>secondary DNS) named.exe uses aroung 0 % cpu.
>
>I understand that the primary server will be more heavily loaded - but the
>DNS servers aren't registrered anywhere, so nobody uses them. The 30-70% is
>pure "idle-mode", and that I don't understand. I mean - what is it doing ?
>
>Is it possible that I have set up a loop in the config files  ? the general
>CPU util is around 100% - so maybe that's the problem ? Or is it just the
>hardware that isn't capable of running the service? (PII 350 MHz / 512 MB
>Ram / Win2k SP2 (and a zillion fixes ;o). Or is it a conflict with another
>application that causes it ?
>
>Well, I can't start the server for real until this problem is fixed - so any
>help is most appreciated !
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>==== UPDATE
>==================================================================
>This time I've attached the config files for the primary server. The two
>domains hosted are just "test" domains which are actually hosted on another
>server currently. The folders "etc" and "log" are placed in
>c:\winnt\system32\dns\ and the folder "zonefiles" is placed in d:\. I really
>hope you can give me some explanation :) - I'm lost...
>
>And - can anyone explain why nothing happens when I post to
>bind9-users at isc.org ??? I don't get the message myself, but someone must
>have gotten it, because I got one answer asking for files (here they are
>:o). Now I try through Outlook news reader....
>Best regards
>
>Jan Hansen
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