On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 02:00:44AM -0700, sexyboy wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have applied the 004 and 005 patches and I still have a same problem.
> The named kick itself out, I can not see anything suspicious in a log file
> the only massage is when hit top command I can see this:
> PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE WAIT TIME CPU COMMAND
> 4670 named 2 0 19M 20M sleep ip6_opt 0:09 0.00%
> named
>
> Anyone have any idea what can I do to fix this bug?
Looks like you didn't apply the kernel patch correctly. Check if you really
are running a patched kernel.
-Otto
>
> Cheers,
> ON
>
>
> Steve Shockley wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The problem: I deployed two OpenBSD 4.3 BIND servers to replace a
> > complex series of Windows and other DNS servers on 7/26. The install
> > included the 004 patch.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > My first guess was that I ran out of file descriptors. An associate
> > found some Linux documentation for BIND somewhere that suggested 16384
> > files. I've toyed with kern.maxfiles and login.conf, and I can't get
> > the max files anywhere near that, which probably implies I don't want to.
> >
> > So, my question is, how can I configure this box to avoid this problem?
> > What is a reasonable kern.maxfiles for a moderately busy DNS caching
> > resolver? Is errata 005 really the answer I'm looking for, even though
> > I don't use IPv6?
> >
> >
> >
>
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