Weird Named error...

[Braun Brelin]

I've just hunted down another error message during startup of named that
says:

amazon named[4835]: cache.c:495: unexpected error:

Anyone seen this?

Thanks,

Braun
> Hello all,
>
> I have a strange named problem which I'm hoping someone can help me solve.
> I'm running a RedHat 7.2 system with Bind 9.2.1.
>
> Currently, BIND only resolves names if I run it with the -g option.
>
> I.e. named -g -u named will resolve names via nslookup or dig.
>
> If I run it normally i.e. via /sbin/service or /etc/init.d/named start
> it will still show up as a process (actually it shows up as 4 processes in
> the process table) but nslookup timesout with a no connection error.
>
> I ran strace named -f -u named just to see if I could find out what was
> happening.  It seems as though named is stuck in a sigsuspend() system
> call apparently waiting for some signal or another to continue.
>
> The only thing that has changed on the box was that the /var fs filled up
> yesterday (It's since been cleared).  All of the zone files look normal.
>
> Has anyone seem this sort of behavior from named before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Braun Brelin
>
>