At 02:03 PM 9/23/2003, R. Scott Perry wrote:

Scott, I'm trying to parse <http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip=>http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ip4r.ch?ip= link but everything is timing out? Any news?

It's working now.  It seems that BIND hung again -- BIND 9 for Windows has a terrible time with hanging.  The service re-set once a day, which helps a lot, but it still occasionally goes down.  Worse, if we go back to previous versions of BIND, there's a major reverse DNS bug in them (if you've ever noticed reverse DNS entries being much slower than forward DNS lookups, that's the bug).

If anyone has a solution for this, I'm all ears. I ended up writing a small program that did a DNS lookup against my BIND 9 server every minute or so, and if it didn't get a response, killed the process and restarted it. A messy hack, but it works.

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