Stephen Lack wrote: > Good evening from a wet colorado fall night. > > I want to say first, thank you so much to the ISC team, you > have provided an amazing array of top class software and I > have enjoyed using it. Thank you. > > Ok, let me get straight to it. I have a been steadily upgrading > through the various 9.x versions, and most recently have had > 9.5.0-P1 running, and have followed all the posts on this list > with respect to the memory leaks, etc. I, too, have noticed > this. What I did was put an entry in my crontab file (yes, I'm > old school, and use cron on windows to time my jobs...) to > restart bind every 8 hours. This has been an ok workaround...the > memory gets freed, and bind starts up clean. I loose the > cache, to be sure, but at least I don't run out of pagefile. > > I got the note that 9.5.0-P2-W1 was out, and upgraded. I just > do the upgrade manually, by replacing files by hand, its > just easier that way and I know where everything goes. I do have > to reboot to free the lock on bindevt.dll but other than that, > its straightforward. >
You don't really need to replace bindevt.dll since there have been no changes in it since BIND 9 was first released. In fact it is the same as was in BIND8. > All seemed to be going fine, then I noticed bind wasn't resolving > after an hour or so. > As Evan said a fix for this is in process. > It responds fine to an rndc status, but not to dig or nslookup; it > just times out. In addition, the log file shows the following entry: > client: error: UDP client handler shutting down due to fatal receive error: > end of file > (I'm aware of this on 'nix, but this is win32 mind you...) > > I also noted in the win event app log, the following upon startup: > the 'files' limit (2048) is less than FD_SETSIZE (16384), increase 'files' > in named.conf or recompile with a smaller FD_SETSIZE. > I don't use the files option...which should default to unlimited, so > what that means is a mystery. I put in a files option with 16385 and > still got the error notice. > Ignore this. The Windows implementation doesn't need it. It really has to do with sockets rather than files and sockets are handled very differently on Windows. Danny > I've rolled back to 9.5.0-P1 with my cron 8 hour restart for now. > > So...any ideas guys? cheers! > > > >
