BIND 9.5.0-P2 DNS issue

[Thomas Schulz]

In article <gfkkt2$2h9s$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
Torsten Segner  <torsten.segner at de.easynet.net> wrote:
>Have you set the max-cache-size variable to a reasonable value other than the default 32MB?


If you can stand to use a version of bind officially listed as beta, you
might try 9.5.1b3.  It fixes a bug in the cache cleaning and increases
the default max-cache-size.  As far as I can tell, it is not less stable
than 9.5.0-P2.


>On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:26:37 +0200
>Daniel Dawalibi <daniel.dawalibi at idm.net.lb> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
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>> After upgrading from our Bind version to Bind 9.5.0-P2 we faced many
>> resolving problems such "Server Failed" messages on any valid domain. 
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>> # nslookup
>> 
>> Default Server:  localhost
>> 
>> Address:  127.0.0.1
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>> > www.google.com
>> 
>> Server:  localhost
>> 
>> Address:  127.0.0.1
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>> > ***Server Failed ****
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>> The server failed messages occurred when the number of recursive clients
>> reach a certain number (i.e : 400 recursive clients)
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>> Output of the command rndc:
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>> ./rndc status 
>> 
>> recursive clients: 349/10000
>> 
>> tcp clients: 6/100
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>> server is up and running
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>> Any idea about this issue?
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>> Regards,
>> 
>> Daniel
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>
>-- 
>Torsten Segner <torsten.segner at de.easynet.net>
>


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Tom Schulz
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