[IMail Forum] OT: DNS/BIND Issues

[Jay Southard]

Hi Guys,       Since this list seems to be full of great DNS support people, I'm hoping I can get some help.  We were having problems with mail and other things (web, ftp, surfing in general) and since it all pointed to DNS I followed Len's website and upgraded my backup DNS server (running on NT4). This helped out a lot (dnsstuff.com score went from F to B). Well I figured that went so well I should upgrade the primary server (previously we were running metasolutions dns 1.2 that did early Bind 4). Well first the Master would crash on zone transfers with the log showing:   date time: accept: Errcode: 9: bad header file (or something like that.)   After searching around (including the bind mail archive) all I found were cracks at MS and thier buggy NT server. So I installed the bug fix listed on Len's site (the sept 16 2000 patch from nortel which i supose is a downgrade), which fixed that problem. Now named.exe crashes, about 8 hours after the service was started Dr. Watson notified me that named.exe had an access violation. The slave has had zero problems since installing it more than a week ago.   I'm running NT4 with all the latest updates and I have Bind 8.3.1 (plus the sept 16 2000 patch from nortel) downloaded from ics.org. Any suggestings on making this work would be appreciated. Or even suggestions to a good solid DNS server program (I was looking at simple DNS today)   TIA,      Jacob