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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