Bind 9.2.3 very, very slow starup

[Eric Dynowski]

> At 09:37 PM 7/12/2004, Eric Dynowski wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>We are having a major problem with our bind 9 server. When restarting our
>>server it can take hours for it to load all the zones
>>and start answering queries. We have discovered that killing the named
>>processes, and restarting it will eventually result in a fast
>>load of all zones (less then 1 second). However, sometimes we only need
>> to
>>kill and restart 2 or 3 times, while 40 or 500 times other times.
>
> Why exactly are you restarting? Does rndc reload and rndc reconfig not
> work
> for you?
>
> Danny
>

Danny,

No rndc does not reload the zone, for some reason we have to stop the
named process and start it again. It's very strange.

Eric.