Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-08-25 Thread Ben Finney
On 25-Aug-2010, Florian Weimer wrote: Do you use a stateful packet filter (such as Netfilter connection tracking), either on the host or in front of it? The host running BIND doesn't run any packet filter. There is a stateful packet filter on a dedicated gateway router for the network, which is

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-08-24 Thread Ben Finney
package bind9 found 561997 1:9.7.1.dfsg.P2-2 thanks [keeping the conversation recorded in the bug report] On 23-Aug-2010, Florian Weimer wrote: * Ben Finney: I am upgrading Squeeze again now and will report the behaviour under the current version. The problem has occurred again, twice now,

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-08-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Ben Finney: Do you know how many UDP flows BIND has generated when this happened? I've seen similar things as the result of firewall state table overflow. I'm not familiar with the term “UDP flows”. I have now installed the ‘flowscan’, ‘flow-tools’, and ‘rrdtool’ packages; can you tell

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-08-19 Thread Ben Finney
package bind9 unarchive 561997 reopen 561997 found 561997 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 thanks On 10-Apr-2010, Ben Finney wrote: I installed version ‘1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1’ of bind9 from Squeeze, and left it running for approximately 70 hours. The problem has not recurred in that time. The problem has

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-04-10 Thread Ben Finney
package bind9 fixed 561997 1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1 thanks I installed version ‘1:9.7.0.dfsg.P1-1’ of bind9 from Squeeze, and left it running for approximately 70 hours. The problem has not recurred in that time. This is enough to demonstrate to me that the problem has been addressed, so I am closing

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-02-02 Thread Ben Finney
package bind9 found 561997 1:9.6.1.dfsg.P3-1 thanks On 22-Dec-2009, Ben Finney wrote: The only way I've found to restore service is to ‘sudo killall -KILL named’ and restart the server, which of course doesn't give much opportunity to find out what's wrong. I installed version

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-01-23 Thread Ben Finney
On 22-Dec-2009, Ben Finney wrote: The only way I've found to restore service is to ‘sudo killall -KILL named’ and restart the server, which of course doesn't give much opportunity to find out what's wrong. I have been trying to narrow down what might be a proximate cause for the bug; but so

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-01-05 Thread Ben Finney
On 22-Dec-2009, Ben Finney wrote: The only way I've found to restore service is to ‘sudo killall -KILL named’ and restart the server, which of course doesn't give much opportunity to find out what's wrong. I have been trying to narrow down what might be a proximate cause for the bug; but so

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-01-05 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 09:44, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: On 22-Dec-2009, Ben Finney wrote: The only way I've found to restore service is to ‘sudo killall -KILL named’ and restart the server, which of course doesn't give much opportunity to find out what's wrong. I have been

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2010-01-05 Thread Ben Finney
On 05-Jan-2010, Ondřej Surý wrote: have you tried writing to bind-users? Your question would probably hit much wider audience. Yes, I have sent a bug report, but it never appeared on the list. Discussing it directly in Debian BTS would only make sense if this behaviour doesn't happen in

Bug#561997: bind9: intermittent hang of ‘named’ during heavy traffic

2009-12-21 Thread Ben Finney
Package: bind9 Version: 1:9.6.1.dfsg.P2-1 Severity: normal For several months I've been having BIND's ‘named’ process hang intermittently. I'm running Debian Squeeze, with the ‘bind9’ package version currently at 1:9.6.1.dfsg.P2-1 though the same behaviour has persisted for a number of versions.