Serious Bind issue

Javier Henderson javier at kjsl.com
Thu Feb 8 21:32:20 UTC 2007


On Feb 8, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

> Javier Henderson wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I was running BIND 9.3.2 for a while and in awe at the  
>> amount of
>> memory it would use, and how it would go CPU bound after it hit any
>> operating system imposed memory quotas.
>
> Many people have reported this problem, but no one has been able to
> follow up on getting it fixed.
>
>> I went back to BIND 8.latest, and my problems went away.
>
> ... but only for the short term. Development has stopped on BIND 8,
> and I'm planning to deprecate the BIND 8 ports now that FreeBSD 4.x
> has been EOL'ed. BIND 9 is not even the wave of the future, it's now
> the present, and if it's not working for you it's incumbent on you to
> contact the bind-users at isc.org list and do what you can to help
> diagnose this problem, and test the fixes.

Sure. What would you like me to do? I can easily set up a test box to  
mirror my main nameserver, which is authoritative for over 2000  
domains, and test away.

-jav




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