Off Topic: Caching Bind Server Freezing

[Randal, Phil]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 1-27-2010 12:02 PM Peter Farrow spake the following:
>> I have had this problem persistently on Centos 5.3 boxes running
>> MailScanner. 
>> 
>> Bind became such a problem on these machines I added several other
>> nameservers in resolve.conf. 
>> 
>> Bind daemon appears to be running but does not respond to service
>> stop command nor does answer any queries.
>> 
>> To stop it I find the process number kill -9 it and then restart with
>> the service command, it will then run for a random amount of time
>> from hours to weeks and then go again,
>> 
>> I think its a bug.
>> 
> I do believe a bind update came out with 5.4... weeks ago

Last Redhat/CentOS post-5.4 bind updates are 

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0062.html

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1620.html

Changes in bind for Redhat/CentOS 5.4:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html/Techn
ical_Notes/bind.html

I've never had any problems with bind here (CentOS 5.4 x64).

Cheers,

Phil


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