DNS - BIND 8.3.4-REL process dying without core on Solaris 7

[Ladislav Vobr]

Pasika, P M [NTK] wrote:
> Hello,b
> I'm running BIND 8.3.4-REL on a Netra 1400 w/ Solaris 7 installed.  I've
> been noticing that named has been dying about every 2-5 minutes with no
> pattern at all.  I have a process monitoring script respawning it
> seamlessly; however I am unable to identify the cause of this error.  I
> tried running a truss on the process to identify what is going on when
> the process dies, below will be some pastes from 3 different
> occurrences.  It may have something to do with /usr/local/etc/ndc.d.ndc
> being unable to stat.  The permissions are:
> 
> # ls -l
> total 0
> srwxr-xr-x   1 root     other          0 Aug 28 01:38 ndc
> # file ndc
> ndc:            socket
> 
> The process is being run as user named, should I manually change the
> owner of the file or leave it as is? (edit: I changed ownership to
> named, to no avail.)

u can try to run named with some trace level, using ndc trace or kill 
-USR1, it will enable debug and might give you some details, how bind 
see the error.

Ladislav