On 22-Dec-2009, Ben Finney wrote:
> The only way I've found to restore service is to ‘sudo killall -KILL
> named’ and restart the server, which of course doesn't give much
> opportunity to find out what's wrong.
> 
> I have been trying to narrow down what might be a proximate cause
> for the bug; but so far all I know is that it is more likely to
> occur when there is a lot of network traffic. There are no log
> unusual log messages from the server when the process runs into
> trouble.
> 
> What can I do to further diagnose this failure on this machine?

This continues to happen frequently.

What diagnosis can be done? Is there some invocation of ‘strace’ or
‘gdb’ I can use to gather more information about the failure?

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Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>

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