Re: Bind9.5.1 under no Root Name Servers

2009-07-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <200907171319.n6hdjs31003...@dc.cis.okstate.edu>, Martin McCormick writes: > What does bind9.5.1 do when there is an Internet issue and we > loose all root name servers? > > The bind9.3.x we had been running always began producing > tons of lines saying that there were no more r

RE: Bind9.5.1 under no Root Name Servers

2009-07-17 Thread Todd Snyder
Martin, It looks like you were relying on an odd mechanism to determine an outage. What you were seeing is the server filling up all the available recursive "slots" because they weren't getting answered, backing up the queue. It wasn't necessarily an indication of an outage, it could have meant