bind

[Vu Pham]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:01 AM, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, slow restart takes 45-180 seconds, not minutes.
>>
>>
>> vu pham wrote:
>>> Recently I notice that my local dns server sometimes takes extremely
>>> longer time to restart. The log in /var/log/messages shows the same logging
>>> messages , no matter if it is restarted normally - in about 2-3 seconds, or
>>> extremely long - in about 45-180 minutes. The server has almost no load.
>>> When it restarts slowly, the load is about 0.01, the same as when it
>>> restarts normally.
>>>
>>> Server : FC7, bind 9.4.1.
>>>
>>> Any idea ?
> 
> Maybe a DNS problem or a network problem?  Did you increase logging to
> see what its doing or at least strace the process?
> 
> BTW, I hope that you're aware that you're using a very very buggy &
> exploitable version of BIND.

Lonni,

Yes, I turned on the log and they are the same, but I have not set the 
log to the maximum information. I will try it.

Thanks for the information about the bind version. I can try an older 
version to see if it fixes that problem.

Thanks,

Vu