From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 22:19:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA06861 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:19:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quagmire.ki.net (root@quagmire.ki.net [205.150.102.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA06854 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 1996 22:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki.net (root@ki.net [205.150.102.1]) by quagmire.ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) with ESMTP id BAA23784; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:19:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by ki.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA15540; Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:19:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: ki.net: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:19:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Peter Stubbs cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: named troubles. In-Reply-To: <35ADAE545F4@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Peter Stubbs wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm having some troubles with BIND. I run a 2.1.5 system as a web > cache, router and name server for my 2 class "C" networks. I have 2 > problems. The system has been running for 18 months using 1.1.5, > 2.0.5, 2.1, 2.1.5. These are the problems. > > > 1) the secondaries can't do a zone transfer. They are FBSD 2.1 > systems at a local university who is our ISP. (we have parmanent > connection via modem) Other systems can do zone transfers, but the 2 > secondaries can't. Systems that can are running some type of > solaris. > > 2) every couple of days, the 2.1.5 system seems to loose the ability > to lookup names. The modem is connected, but "ftp ftp.cdrom.com" > returns "host unknown". restarting named doesn't help, but a full > reboot gets us back online. If the host name is in the in the DNS > cache, you can reach it OK, but new DNS lookups fail. The strange > symptom is that the modem won't redial when you reboot. Normally a > reboot will make the modem hangup, then redial, but it doesn't hang > up. I have to switch it off, then it will redial. > > Please help, I can't find the solution. > I had a similar problem recently with named on both my FreeBSD boxes, and Sparc20...for no apparent reason, it just stopped serving... I grabbed the latest BIND from ftp.vix.com and installed it on both machines, and the problems disappeared *shrug* YMMV... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org