bind dies randomly

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Greg <grodenhi at holycross.edu> wrote:
> I have 4 Redhat 8 Linux servers performing DNS (Bind 9.2.1-9 on all
> 4).  Two of them are outside (1 being the master), and the other two
> are inside (all inside clients use one of the internal DNS servers as
> their primary).  This works quite well except for one thing...  At
> random intervals the one or both of the internal DNS servers (slaves)
> will stop answering DNS requests altogether (this can occur after a
> few hours or up to a week or two).  Simply restarting the DNS service
> on these machines will clear up the issue.  There are no errors
> whatsoever in the logs (both are logging DNS at "debug" and the named
> log has no errors.  Any ideas on what causes this?

Upgrade. 9.2.1 is old and has a buf resebling your symptoms.

Download 9.2.3 from isc.org and rebuild.


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