selecttest tool

[Walter]

JINMEI Tatuya / ???? wrote:
> At Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:06:02 -0500,
> Walter <gouldwp at auburn.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> I downloaded P2 tonight and did what was suggested in the CHANGES file.  
>> Here is my configure statement:
>> STD_CDEFINES="-DISC_SOCKET_FDSETSIZE=4096" ./configure 
>> --prefix=/usr/local/bind-9.5.0-P2 --sysconfdir=/var/named
>>
>> It seemed to build and run fine for about an hour.  I was running "lsof 
>> | grep named | wc -l" every five seconds.  For the first hour, lsof 
>> returned values anywhere from 40 to 90, but then it climbed to right at 
>> 1000 and named stopped resolving names.  The daemon never stopped 
>> running, but resolution totally failed. 
>>     
>
> Could you be more specific about 'resolution totally failed'?  Is it
> returning SERVFAILs errors to any queries?  Is it (seemingly) ignoring
> queries?  What if the query should hit the cache?  Does rndc work?  If
> so, what's the output of rndc status?
>
> ---
> JINMEI, Tatuya
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
>   
Yes, it was returning SERVFAIL errors to queries. No, it didn't appear 
that it was ignoring queries - just giving the SERVFAILs. It didn't 
matter if I queried for a name that was already cached. I didn't think 
to try running rndc status, I guess will do that this evening.

Walter