Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:48:18 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> Cc: "Conrad T. Pino" <Conrad@Pino.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND 8.2.3 Crashing Question Message-ID: <3ABE1342.4A9CDFFF@iowna.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103242222120.391-100000@shazam.int>
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Jim Durham wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Conrad T. Pino wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > BIND 8.2.3 is crashing entirely too frequently. I'm running it as a non-root user and > > the working directory is not in the standard place. > > > > The same machine previously ran an earlier release FreeBSD with BIND 4.9.7 with no problems. > > > > I'm not ruling out faulty hardware as yet but I would like feedback on the software before > > pulling out the screw driver. > > > > Has anyone else used a similar configuration without crashing? > > > > Well, I'm running it as root and it's core dumping at wierd intervals. > My solution at the moment has been to run a script out of cron to > restart it if it goes away. > > I am suspicious of some sort of attack. We have two nameservers, located > at different ends of the US, and the west coast server, running > 3.3-RELEASE has had no problems with 8.2.3-REL, but the east coast > server, running 4.1, has core dumped on two Monday mornings. Very > suspicious to me, but I can see nothing in the logs except what > you see, signal 11 (core dumped). I came in two Monday mornings to > pandemonium, so I noticed the time coincidence! > > Is this a master or a slave? The one I'm having trouble with is > running as a slave. The west coast nameserver is the master and > it's fine. I have also seen trouble with BIND crashing on a 4.2-STABLE machine. Looking at it, this is 8.2.3-T6B Was that a Beta release? If so, I'd better upgrade before I complain too much. I thought I had grabbed a productin release, but I don't even see T6B listed on the site. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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