A curious Error

[Ron Hall]

KSP wrote:

>Ron,
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>What version of BIND are you running?
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    Ooops - I'm such a dolt sometimes :

    Were running bind  Version: 9.2.4rc6 on RedHat AS 3

    Linux kona.CC.McGill.CA 2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Jul 31 
01:25:25 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

    r

>ksp
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>On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Ron Hall wrote:
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>>Howdy
>>
>>Last night the named processed died and gave me the following error:
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>>Sep  2 03:08:07 kona named[25165]: general: info: zone
>>104.216.132.in-addr.arpa/IN: refresh: failure trying master
>>132.206.85.21#53: timed out
>>Sep  2 03:08:07 kona named[25165]: general: warning: unknown control
>>channel command 'null'
>>Sep  2 03:08:07 kona named[25165]: general: info: shutting down:
>>flushing changes
>>Sep  2 03:08:07 kona named[25165]: general: notice: stopping command
>>channel on 0.0.0.0#953
>>
>>Now a google for the "unknown control channel command" error yields only
>>the source code and this error
>>appears at the end of a very long "case" statement. Which already tells
>>me it should never happen or at least
>>happen once in several blue moons.
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>>Now the line immediately above is an xfer from an AD server for which we
>>are secondary.
>>Additionally there was a considerable "drift" in the time, so that the
>>primary lagged (badly)
>>behind the secondary.
>>
>>I have never seen this error before and I am somewhat curious as to what
>>caused it and how
>>it can be avoided.
>>
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>
>>Ron Hall
>>McGill University
>>NCS - Enterprise Systems
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