Re: mysterious wedges in bind9

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Buxton
On Jun 2, 2009, at 4:52 PM, travis+ml-b...@subspacefield.org wrote: My primary bind9 name server which does double-duty as a server and recursive lookup is becoming "wedged" where it does not respond to queries or stop events from rndc. Sending SIGTERM does not work; I have to SIGKILL (kill -

Re: Doubts about BIND

2009-06-02 Thread Josh Miller
Josh Miller wrote: Christoph Weber-Fahr wrote: How serious is bind-dlz these days? I mean - that code hasn't been touched for half a decade now. Does it even compile with current bind versions? bind-dlz is very useful for dynamic provisioning of customer sites by inserting data into a databa

Re: Doubts about BIND

2009-06-02 Thread Josh Miller
Christoph Weber-Fahr wrote: How serious is bind-dlz these days? I mean - that code hasn't been touched for half a decade now. Does it even compile with current bind versions? bind-dlz is very useful for dynamic provisioning of customer sites by inserting data into a database table. I have a

Re: Doubts about BIND

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Darcy
Eduardo Júnior wrote: Hi, I have some doubts about BIND and can't find documentation about: References are welcome =) 1. The Named read the file named.conf and store all it in the main memory? The same is done to files zones? Yes, basically, in the default configuration. Or is there anothe

Re: Doubts about BIND

2009-06-02 Thread Christoph Weber-Fahr
Hello, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: On Jun 2, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Eduardo Júnior wrote: I have some doubts about BIND and can't find documentation about: References are welcome =) 1. The Named read the file named.conf and store all it in the main memory? The same is done to files zones? Or is the

Re: mysterious wedges in bind9

2009-06-02 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 16:52 -0500, travis+ml-b...@subspacefield.org wrote: > Hello, > > My primary bind9 name server which does double-duty as a server and recursive > lookup > is becoming "wedged" where it does not respond to queries or stop events from > rndc. > Sending SIGTERM does not work;

Re: Doubts about BIND

2009-06-02 Thread Bradley Giesbrecht
On Jun 2, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Eduardo Júnior wrote: Hi, I have some doubts about BIND and can't find documentation about: References are welcome =) 1. The Named read the file named.conf and store all it in the main memory? The same is done to files zones? Or is there another way? You prob

Re: allow query or recursive?

2009-06-02 Thread Noel Butler
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 13:08 +1000, dantian...@optusnet.com.au wrote: > Hi, > I have a bind server I now use as a caching. > > In allowing my work desktop to access i found that it was being refused using > allow-query, but if i add it to recursion it works, have i mis-understood the > use of al

Doubts about BIND

2009-06-02 Thread Eduardo Júnior
Hi, I have some doubts about BIND and can't find documentation about: References are welcome =) 1. The Named read the file named.conf and store all it in the main memory? The same is done to files zones? Or is there another way? 2. Once named.conf and files zones are loaded in memory (if they a

mysterious wedges in bind9

2009-06-02 Thread travis+ml-bind
Hello, My primary bind9 name server which does double-duty as a server and recursive lookup is becoming "wedged" where it does not respond to queries or stop events from rndc. Sending SIGTERM does not work; I have to SIGKILL (kill -9) it. Package info: ii bind9 1:9.5.0.dfsg.P2-

Re: How bind works

2009-06-02 Thread Kevin Darcy
Eduardo Júnior wrote: Hi, I read about Bind which it works as follow (in general words): query -> named -> named.conf -> files zones Is it possible create many named.conf, one per thread with the objetive of to reduce queue's lenght of querys. For example: named.a-e.conf named.f-m.conf na