On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Craig Foster wrote:
> I've noticed on my personal test system, that the named deamon seems to have
> an error handling problem.
>
> My system comprises an Acer modem/router and ES&G 4.1rc3 in Server mode,
> three PC's and an iBook SE.
>
> After the router being disconnected from the internet for periods of five
> hours or more, (still investigating), 'bind' freezes. It doesn't quit or
> segfault. A 'service named restart' works a treat, but obviously this could
> be a problem for off-site supported servers.
It's worse than that, Jim. You shouldn't be using "service named restart",
and it shouldn't be effective if you do. We run named as a supervised
service from inittab. If the name server dies, another should be spawned
to take its place.
To kill the current running named, so that a new one starts:
killall named
To restart most other e-smith services, which run from SysV init startup
scripts, use:
/etc/rc7.d/Sxxblah restart
Do not use "service"; it may work most of the time, but doesn't use the
e-smith configuration database, and will therefore do some unqanted things
from time to time.
> If this is known, please ignore :-)
Yours is the first report of a reliability problem with named.
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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