Bind problem on RHEL 5 (probably on CentOS 5 also)

[Denis Beauchemin]

Hello all,

I just noticed all my MS boxes running caching nameservers were getting 
*a lot* of bind errors! Here are the numbers on one server:
zgrep -c 'network unreachable resolving' messages-200909* messages-2009100*
messages-20090901.gz:0
messages-20090902.gz:0
messages-20090903.gz:0
messages-20090904.gz:0
messages-20090905.gz:0
messages-20090906.gz:0
messages-20090907.gz:0
messages-20090908.gz:0
messages-20090909.gz:0
messages-20090910.gz:0
messages-20090911.gz:0
messages-20090912.gz:0
messages-20090913.gz:0
messages-20090914.gz:0
messages-20090915.gz:0
messages-20090916.gz:0
messages-20090917.gz:0
messages-20090918.gz:0
messages-20090919.gz:13482
messages-20090920.gz:13417
messages-20090921.gz:13784
messages-20090922.gz:21186
messages-20090923.gz:25369
messages-20090924.gz:24194
messages-20090925.gz:23056
messages-20090926.gz:20464
messages-20090927.gz:14473
messages-20090928.gz:13384
messages-20090929.gz:22540
messages-20090930.gz:23388
messages-20091001.gz:24669
messages-20091002.gz:22321
messages-20091003.gz:23447
messages-20091004.gz:14949
messages-20091005.gz:15378
messages-20091006.gz:22239

As you can see, that was worrysome!  I found out that the problems 
started with the installation of bind-9.3.6-4.P1.el5.  I tried to figure 
out what happened in that release but couldn't see anything (I should 
say I don't know much about bind).  I went to RHN and downloaded the 
previous versions:
bind-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
bind-chroot-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
bind-libs-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
bind-utils-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.3.i386.rpm
caching-nameserver-9.3.4-10.P1.el5_3.3.i386.rpm

After force-installing them the error messages disappeared!

Just wanted to let you know.

Denis

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