Urgent problem - BIND 9.2.x on Solaris 8 going "brain-dead"

[Brad Knowles]

At 11:56 PM -0600 2005-07-12, James Noyes wrote:

>>  Move to 9.3.1?
>
>  I'll give that a go.  Is 9.3.1 considered stable enough for production?

	It's better than 9.2.x, yes.

>>  Compile using the internal malloc() compile option?
>
>  I'm guessing this is a configure-time option.

	Yes.

>>  Limit the cache size?
>
>  And that this is a run-time option.

	Yes.

>>  Set up a Linux (or BSD or whatever, just not Solaris8) box as a
>>  temporary solution.
>
>  Unfortunately, I can't try this without cooperation from the network team to
>  punch holes in the firewall, so this will have to wait until tomorrow.

	I'm not convinced that Linux or BSD is a better solution here than Solaris.

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