BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

[Vincent Poy]

Thanks, maybe I should have asked, what's the difference between default and
general.
Cheers,
Vince

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com> wrote:

>  Default is "everything else". If you don't define a category, it will go
> to default instead.
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> -Vinny
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> *From:* Vincent Poy [mailto:vincepoy at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:25 PM
> *To:* Vinny Abello
> *Cc:* wizzy at wizzy.co.uk; comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> *Subject:* Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding
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> Yep, that's it.  Thanks!  Would the default category pretty much send
> everything that goes to syslog when nothing for logging is defined?
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> Cheers,
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> Vince
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> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com> wrote:
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> I think you're looking for this:
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> http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm94/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#id2574908
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> http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm94/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#the_category_phrase
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> The channel names are whatever you want to call them. It's the categories
> that are predefined.
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> -Vinny
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> *From:* Vincent Poy [mailto:vincepoy at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:55 PM
> *To:* Vinny Abello
> *Cc:* wizzy at wizzy.co.uk; comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
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> *Subject:* Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding
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> Thanks, I have a question.  Is there somewhere on the net that has
> something explaining the different variables and options for the logging
> config since in Unix, everything is sent to the systemlog but with Windows,
> it's another story.  Also, other than the different filesnames of your
> channels, wouldn't the output be identical or does named actually have
> defined names of the type which is what the channel names are?  Thanks.
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> Cheers,
>
> Vince
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> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com> wrote:
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> We do something like this:
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> logging {
>        channel named_log {
>                file "c:\bind\log\named.log" versions 3 size 1m;
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>                severity dynamic;
>                print-category yes;
>                print-time yes;
>        };
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>        channel security_log {
>                file "c:\bind\log\security.log" versions 3 size 1m;
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>                severity dynamic;
>                print-category yes;
>                print-time yes;
>        };
>
>        channel update_log {
>                file "c:\bind\log\update.log" versions 3 size 1m;
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>                severity dynamic;
>                print-category yes;
>                print-time yes;
>        };
>
>        channel xfer_log {
>                file "c:\bind\log\xfer.log" versions 3 size 1m;
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>                severity dynamic;
>                print-category yes;
>                print-time yes;
>        };
>        category default { named_log; };
>
>        category lame-servers { null; };
>        category security { security_log; };
>        category update { update_log; };
>        category update-security { update_log; };
>        category xfer-in { xfer_log; };
>        category xfer-out { xfer_log; };
> };
>
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> The user created to run named is a standard user by default. Be sure they
> have permissions to write to the directory you specify in your
> configuration.
>
> -Vinny
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> > Behalf Of Vincent Poy
> > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 12:25 PM
> > To: wizzy at wizzy.co.uk
> > Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> > Subject: Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding
> >
>
> > Speaking about logs using BIND in Windows, how are you guys configuring
> > your
> > named.conf file because even though I have configured the named.conf as
> > follows for logs, the named.log gets created by BIND with 0 bytes but
> > has
> > remained at 0 bytes ever since.  Thanks!
> >         logging {
> >         channel named_log {
> >                 file "c:\windows\system32\dns\log\named.log" versions 3
> > size
> > 1m;
> >                 severity dynamic;
> >                 print-category yes;
> >                 print-time yes;
> >         };
> >         category default{
>
> >         };
> > };
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vince
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:27 AM, <wizzy at wizzy.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
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