Bind 9.6.1: skipping zone transfer, but why ?

[Mark Andrews]

In message <4A671A96.8090508 at nhl-data.dk>, Jan Hansen writes:
> Thanks! Nice to know that this isn't (just) me being unable to configure 
>   bind :o)
> 
> As I wrote in the post "Master is unreachable (cached)", I've switched 
> to windows server 2003, which currently *seem* to have a positive 
> effect. I haven't seen the behaviour yet after the switch, but Ian Tait 
> sees this behaviour on 2003. Is it OS specific, or does it affect both 
> 2003/2008? As far as I'm informed, much of the network stack is new in 
> 2008/vista and forward, which maybe could be related to this problem?
> 
> When will this fix be out in a "release"? 9.6.2, perhaps? or what is the 
> roadmap for that kind of things?

This is just a workaround for bugs in Windows versions of
isc_time_seconds() and isc_time_nanoseconds().  We expect a release
fixes in the next maintence releases.

The triggering event may or may not be Windows version specific.

Mark

> Best regards
> 
> Jan Hansen
> 
> On 20-07-2009 21:53, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:
> > At Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:41:24 -0700,
> > JINMEI Tatuya <jinmei at isc.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> We've found a bug that can cause this problem.  We're working on a
> >> complete fix to the problem, but a workaround patch copied below may
> >> work for you in the mean time.
> > 
> > Sorry that patch was incorrect.  Copying the correct one.
> > 
> > ---
> > JINMEI, Tatuya
> > 
> > Index: zone.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /proj/cvs/prod/bind9/lib/dns/zone.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.483.36.7
> > diff -u -r1.483.36.7 zone.c
> > --- zone.c	17 Jun 2009 04:53:57 -0000	1.483.36.7
> > +++ zone.c	20 Jul 2009 19:42:09 -0000
> > @@ -11032,6 +11032,8 @@
> >  	isc_uint32_t last = seconds;
> >  	unsigned int i, slot = UNREACH_CHACHE_SIZE, oldest = 0;
> >  
> > +	return;
> > +
> >  	REQUIRE(DNS_ZONEMGR_VALID(zmgr));
> >  
> >  	RWLOCK(&zmgr->rwlock, isc_rwlocktype_write);
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