Bind 9.2.3 very, very slow starup

[Eric Dynowski]

George,

We are having a difficult time figuring out when it started exactly, as
far as I know we have not made any changes to anything. I have combed
through the SYSLOG messages, and started named with -d option and there
are no indications as to what may be causing this. I think the fact the
rndc reload  zone name doesn't work is directly related to the slow
startup. I have tried several different versions of bind 9 with the same
result.

Are there any other debug options I can turn to make the logging output
more verbose?

Thanks
Eric.

> What else has changed?  Any recent updates, patches?
> Any change in forwarders or addition of new servers.
> Any indications in your event logs, messages, SYSLOGs,
> etc.  Can you narrow down when it started and perhaps
> that might help show what is happening. Any other
> Sys Admins that might have made some change without
> you knowing?
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
> Behalf Of Danny Mayer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:23 PM
> To: bindlist at ip-hotel.com
> Cc: bindlist at ip-hotel.com; bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Bind 9.2.3 very, very slow starup
>
>
> 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.
>
>