Bind 9.4.3b2 will not start (RHEL AS Release 3, Taroon Update 8)

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:47:37 -0400,
Mike Mitchell <Mike.Mitchell at sas.com> wrote:

> I have 80 nameservers running bind 9.5.1b1.  They are running under 3 different
> versions of Red Hat.  The only problem has been 'not enough free resources' messages
> on one nameserver.  I fixed that problem by increasing the size of the ARP cache on
> the server.
> 
> I did have to manually edit the "lib/isc/include/isc/platform.h" file after running
> 'configure'.  For systems running Red Hat AS 3.0 I had to change
>   #define ISC_PLATFORM_HAVEEPOLL 1
> to
>   #undef ISC_PLATFORM_HAVEEPOLL
> 
> Otherwise named would not start.

I suspect your kernel has incomplete support for epoll (I guess it's
2.4.x) that confuses autoconf.  This will be fixed in the next beta.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.