On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 03:08:19PM -0400, Steven Surdock wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I saw this exact same behavior on a couple of servers with a 4.3-stable
> build from 7/28. Due to some differences in the way I built the -stable
> release I decided to try again from scratch. The 8/4 build of bsd +
> base43.tgz have been working fine. This seems to support the suggestion
> that patch 005 might help.
The key is question is: do you see named processes in the state
ip6_opt in top(1)? If so, patch 005 certainly will help, even if you
are not actively using ipv6.
-Otto
>
> -Steve S.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of
> > Steve Shockley
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:35 AM
> > To: Misc
> > Subject: BIND and file descriptors
> >
> > Is anyone having issues between patched BIND and running out of file
> > descriptors? I saw the thread at http://marc.info/?m=121711077022388,
> > but that's somewhat vague.
> ...
> > About 24 hours later, one of the servers (the primary) died. Named
> was
> > still running, the server was still accepting connections on port 53,
> > but never answering. This became a problem because several other
> > servers continued to use the primary instead of the secondary because
> > the primary was "answering" but timing out. Attempts to kill named
> were
> > unsuccessful. Load average was near zero.
