ISC Bind crashes daily, should I upgrade?

[Danny Mayer]

At 08:56 PM 4/23/2004, Vincent 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 IS=
>C
>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?

Yes, you are running pre-9.2.3 version.

>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?

dig @127.0.0.1 version.bind txt chaos


>I suspect I may have to upgrade the ISC Bind software to the latest versi=
>on.
>I have never done this before and would like to know what this involves a=
>nd
>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.

Just download the new binary and run install. Takes no more than about one
minute to install. Don't uninstall unless there's a problem.

Danny

>Thanks in advance.
>
>Vince