ISC Bind crashes dialy, should I upgrade?

[Vince De Mello]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your reply. I carried out the command uname -a and got the
following result:

CYGWIN_NT-5.0 server1 1.3.22(0.78/3/2) 2003-03-18 09:20 i686 unknown

I then tried to do named -v and got:

'named' is not recognised as an internal or external command operable
program or batch file.

Does this mean I have a very old version of BIND?

Should I go to isc.org to get the latest BIND version? Please clarify as I
am very nervous about dabbling in this area.

Thanks

Vince

<phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu> wrote in message
news:c6jqtp$14og$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Vince De Mello <vince at microbotics.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > Please forgive my ignorance but I am new to ISC bind.
>
> > I have a Windows 2000 server running IIS5. Recently I noticed that our
ISC
> > Bind service kept stopping on a daily basis and had to be restarted.
> > I noticed the following errors in my log file which occured at the
moment of
> > the crash.
>
> > socket c:2230: fatal error:
> > select() failed: Socket operation on non-socket
> > exiting (due to fatal error in library)
>
> > Can anyone shed any light on this?
>
> It's fatal all right.
>
> > I am also trying to figure out what version of ISC Bind I am running.
Can
> > somone please explain to me in simple terms how I can find this out?
>
> First your OS ans version is interesting, usually the command
> 'uname -a' will reveal all needed information.
>
> Then 'named -v' will ( for modern bind's) spit out a line or two :
> > named -v
> named 8.3.4-REL Thu Apr  3 08:26:42 GMT 2003
>         root at freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named
>
> or
>
> > named -v
> BIND 9.2.3
>
>
> Older bind's might not tell us anything ( but in that case your really
should
> update)
>
>
> > I suspect I may have to upgrade the ISC Bind software to the latest
version.
> > I have never done this before and would like to know what this involves
and
> > what risks are involved. I would like to keep any downtime to a minimum.
> > Hopefully it is simply a case of running the self install application.
>
> Most vendors has ready-made packages that you install the same way
> as you install other software.
>
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> > Vince
>
>
>
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> Peter Håkanson
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