bind 8.4.1 under windows stopping without warning

[Danny Mayer]

Upgrade to 9.2.3rc3 and see if the problem still arises. BIND 8 on
Windows still has some architectural problems with sockets.

Don't use rc4, as the build was bad.

Danny
At 11:47 PM 9/23/03, ree at thunderstar.net wrote:
>I am wondering if anyone can shed some light on something I recently ran
>into with a windows server running bind 8.4.1 (same behavior also noted on
>8.3.4).
>
>The exact scenario is a server that is secondary for a few thousand zones.
>When a few hundred of these were removed from the server, resulting in
>numerous attempts by the secondary to transfer those zones, which, of
>course, errored out since the primary was no longer authoritative, bind on
>the secondary would stop suddenly several times per day.
>
>I was in the midst of removing a bunch of zones but I didn't do the
>secondary at the same time as the primary. As soon as the primary had
>those same zones removed, no more sudden stops.
>
>The server is running NT4.
>
>Obviously, one shouldn't have many zones in a secondary for which the
>primary is not authoritative, however, bind shouldn't stop due to this
>either.
>
>TIA
>
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