Solaris 8 servers running BIND 9.2.2 stops resolving external names

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> This has been several times happened to us, our dns (eventhough named seems r
> unning) stopping to resolve names, and "rndc status" shows following,
> 
> [ifdns1]</var/named>rndc status
> rndc: connection to remote host closed
> This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of
> the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect,
> or the key is invalid.
> 
> Also in the dns logs I see,
> 
> Aug 22 13:10:00.067 general: warning: dropped command channel from 127.0.0.1#
> 34475: out of memory
> Aug 22 13:16:20.092 general: warning: dropped command channel from 127.0.0.1#
> 34476: out of memory
> Aug 22 13:20:00.516 general: warning: dropped command channel from 127.0.0.1#
> 34477: out of memory
> 
> 
> I have seen some emails regarding asme problem, anybody have any solution for
>  that...thanks
> 
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	Allow the process to get more memory (datasize, add real
	memory), limit the size of the cache (max-cache-size) or
	reduce the maximum cache retention time (max-cache-ttl,
	max-ncache-ttl, cleaning-interval).
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