Bind 9.2.3 very, very slow starup

[Danny Mayer]

At 09:34 AM 7/13/2004, Eric Dynowski wrote:
> > 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.

Did you try
rndc reload zonename

Danny

>Eric.