On Monday 11 November 2002 12:34 pm, you wrote:
> On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 04:27 PM, Jim Tarvid wrote:
> > I had three reboots last night due to a nasty power outage.
> >
> > In two of the three cases, named loaded zones (180) slowly and httpd
> > had
> > trouble with name resoltion (130 virtuals) (makes sense). In both
> > cases, the
> > machine could be made functional by stopping and starting named and
> > httpd,
> > maybe more than once.
> >
> > In the third case, the machine came up flawlessly.
> >
> > This has happened before on different hardware.
> >
> > I am beginning to blame BIND 9.2.1.
> >
> > I am mulling my options.
> >
> > 1) find a named replacement
>
> djbdns is nice.  And fast.  And secure.  And fast.
>
DJB writes good code. It is the arrogance I have trouble with.

> > 2) move named to a separate server
> > 3) not start either on boot up and write a script to make sure the
> > zones load
> > properly before starting httpd
> > 4) abandon mandrake as a server OS
>
> Any of these would work, except for the last one.  I don't think it's
> Mandrake that is causing your problem...  I've got djbdns running on
> all three webservers, each with their own local cache, and two of them
> as DNS servers for the domains I host.  No problems at all, and they
> run, boot up, shut down, etc. all without problems.  The servers are
> all mdk8.2, so I'm quite certain that #4 probably wouldn't make much
> difference.  Moving named to a seperate server, or replacing named with
> something else (<hint>djbdns</hint> would probably be your best
> solutions.
I didn't have this problem with 8.2 either. I didn't ahve this problem until 
BING 9.x.

I took a look at MyDNS and it would fit nicely with my RBL system (which is 
in MySQL). Now if I could get postfix to log to MySQL I could blacklist on 
the fly.

That would be worth some effort.

Thanks.

Jim Tarvid


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