Re: [SLUG] 'named' problems (dns)

[Tony Green <tgreen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24/08/2004, at 2:52 PM, Jared Pritchard wrote:
> Just experiencing some crazy problems with ‘named’ (dns).
>
> Our web server (which is also our gateway to the Internet for our 
> office machines) serves as a DNS and sporadically over the last couple 
> of days, for no known reason, named keeps failing and every now and 
> then (between 15 minutes to a few hours) it will just, stop. I restart 
> it using ‘service named restart’ and it says that the shutdown of 
> named failed, but startup is OK.
>
> Originally (not knowing what the problem was) I reset our web server, 
> so it’s not just some bug in startup, and we have made NO changes that 
> should effect it’s workings at all.
>
> Just weird. =/
>
> I’ve looked through the cronjobs & there’s nothing that even comes 
> close to the failure times, so I can’t see what the problem might be.
>
> Has anyone experienced this sort of thing before, or have any idea 
> what it might be?

Be useful to see some logs from the server.  /var/log/daemon.log is a 
good place to start, depending on your syslog config.

Sounds to me like bind (named) is dying.
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Tony Green <tgreen@xxxxxxxxxxx>