BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

[Vinny Abello]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of wizzy at wizzy.co.uk
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 7:28 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding
>
> On 5 Sep, 18:33, Vinny Abello <vi... at tellurian.com> wrote:
> > I just upgraded from BIND 9.4.2 to BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 on Windows Server
> 2003. The service no longer crashes like it did in P1 and P2, however
> after about 12 hours of load, named just stops responding to queries
> completely. The service appears that it is still running but will not
> respond to any type of query. I've restarted it and it came back to
> life again. I'm going to watch it more carefully to look for any other
> types of symptoms. I checked the log files and nothing out of the
> ordinary was in the logs. In fact, according to the logs, it appears
> that zone transfers were still happily taking place while it was not
> responding to queries.
> >
>  [snip]
> >
> > Some possible information that might help with this server's
> configuration. This server has multiple IPv4 IP addresses bound to the
> same network and same NIC. There is no IPv6 stack installed on the
> server. This server currently does recursion and also hosts some
> secondary zones as well.
> >
> > -Vinny
>
> Hi,
>
> Just want to add a 'me too'. We've got a very similar setup: Windows
> 2003 SP2 with multiple IPv4 addresses bound to a single NIC. No IPv6.
> Server is authoratitive for about 300 zones files and also recurses.
> Just stops answering UDP queries after a few hours, it's OK if you
> stop and restart it. No event logs worth mentioning.
>
> Darren

I was waiting for a me too. I knew they were coming. Your configuration appears to be the same. I'm really tired of both waiting for Windows patches for BIND, and having Windows specific bugs in the BIND code. I've put up with many of them for years. BIND 9 until recently was pretty stable on Windows for the most part, but I'm going to have to abandon Windows for my DNS servers as it just puts me in a bad position waiting for patches and having unstable DNS services. For now we've been keeping 9.4.2 running on Windows for our authoritative non-recursive servers and been replacing our recursive servers with FreeBSD and BIND 9.4.2-P2.

-Vinny