Bind 9.2.3 very, very slow starup

[Vinny Abello]

Sounds like you plain and simple just have a hardware problem which some 
people suggested. This will affect anything as you've seen with your scp.

At 07:29 AM 7/16/2004, Eric Dynowski wrote:
>Everyone,
>
>Just an update..
>
>I was about to rebuild bind on another machine and replace this one
>because I was ran out other ideas. So I tar'ed up the /etc/bind direcory
>to copy over, and noticed the copy (scp) was very, very, very slow.. So I
>disabled the on board Intel NIC, installed a Netgear, and recompiled the
>Kernel (2.4.18) without EtherExpress Pro support and with DEC Tulip
>support, then rebooted and bind started perfectly the first time.
>
>Because this is a production server, Im still affraid to restart bind and
>find out if this really solved the problem. I guess we will see what
>happens the next time I try and restart. Has anyone ever seen a problem
>with bind relating to network kernel drivers? I have tried different
>kernel versions up to 2.6..
>
>Strange..
>
>Eric.
>
> > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:20, Eric Dynowski wrote:
> >> > At 01:46 PM 7/13/2004, Eric Dynowski wrote:
> >> >>Danny,
> >> >>
> >> >>There are no errors in the logs, so I am assuming there are none in
> >> the
> >> >>zone files. I have removed all zones but one and still the same
> >> problem
> >> >>occurs.
> >> >>
> >> >>Eric.
> >> >
> >> > run named-checkzone to make sure and named-checkconf.
> >> >
> >> > Danny
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Danny,
> >>
> >> named-checkzone, and named-checkconf return all OK. No problems found.
> >>
> >> I ran named-checkzone on all of our zone files.
> >>
> >> Eric.
> >
> > One thing comes to mind, are you starting named *BEFORE* you have your
> > network connections up and active?
> >
> > --
> > G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
> > PATH tech
> >
> >


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