Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:19:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Peter Stubbs <PETERS@staidan.qld.edu.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: named troubles. Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.960912011721.15522A-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <35ADAE545F4@aidan.staidan.qld.edu.au>
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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
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