BIND 9.6.0-P1 on windows server 2008 32 bit hangs

[Danny Mayer]

Kobi Shachar wrote:
> Recently I upgraded my bind machine to a new windows 2008 server web
> edition 32 bit with 2 E5420 quad core CPU's.
> 
> The server is configured with about 7000 master zone files.
> 
>  
> 
> Since the upgrade, BIND hangs every 5-10 hours.
> 
> I checked the logs and I saw these lines on the default log:
> 
>  
> 
> 5-éðå-2009 07:20:03.832 client: error: UDP client handler shutting down
> due to fatal receive error: host unreachable
> 
> 25-éðå-2009 07:20:03.832 client: error: UDP client handler shutting down
> due to fatal receive error: host unreachable
> 
> 25-éðå-2009 07:20:03.832 client: error: UDP client handler shutting down
> due to fatal receive error: host unreachable
> 
> 25-éðå-2009 07:20:03.832 client: error: UDP client handler shutting down
> due to fatal receive error: host unreachable
> 
> 25-éðå-2009 07:20:03.832 client: error: UDP client handler shutting down
> due to fatal receive error: host unreachable
> 
> 25-éðå-2009 07:20:03.832 client: error: UDP client handler shutting down
> due to fatal receive error: host unreachable
> 
> 25-éðå-2009 07:20:03.833 client: error: UDP client handler shutting down
> due to fatal receive error: host unreachable
> 
> 25-éðå-2009 07:20:03.833 client: error: UDP client handler shutting down
> due to fatal receive error: host unreachable
> 
>  
> 
> After the service hangs, all the queries returned time out and there is
> no answers anymore from the dns server.
> 
> "rndc status" tells me that the service is up and running and zone
> transfers are continued as usual.
> 
> Only the DNS queries are stopped working and returning time out.
> 
>  
> 
> Any idea?

Upgrade. There were bugs in that version that were only fixed in the
P1-W2 version. Either to 9.5.0-P2-W2, 9.5.1-P1 ot 9.6.0-P1.

Danny