On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:52, Jared Pritchard wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Just experiencing some crazy problems with ânamedâ (dns).
>
> Our web server (which is also our gateway to the Internet for our
> office machines) serves as a DNS and sporadically over the last couple
> of days, for no known reason, named keeps failing and every now and
> then (between 15 minutes to a few hours) it will just, stop. I restart
> it using âservice named restartâ and it says that the shutdown of
> named failed, but startup is OK.
I queried this yesterday on another list. When I did an A query it
would come back as the root DNS servers being the authority.
I gather there was some really screwed routing problems somewhere,
perhaps with our favourite telco. Seems like they might be continuing.
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> Originally (not knowing what the problem was) I reset our web server,
> so itâs not just some bug in startup, and we have made NO changes that
> should effect itâs workings at all.
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> Just weird. =/
>
> Iâve looked through the cronjobs & thereâs nothing that even comes
> close to the failure times, so I canât see what the problem might be.
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> Has anyone experienced this sort of thing before, or have any idea
> what it might be?
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> When ânamedâ âfailsâ, it simply wonât let us view our website, or any
> other site on the net using domain names. IPswork fine.
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> Using Redhat 7.3 I think
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> Here is a quick dump of ârndcâ â (when named is working unfortunately,
> havenât been here for last few failures)
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> *------------------------------------------------
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> [root]# rndc status
>
> number of zones: 28
>
> debug level: 0
>
> xfers running: 0
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> xfers deferred: 0
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> soa queries in progress: 0
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> query logging is OFF
>
> server is up and running
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> I have no idea how thatâs going to help, but who knows? Not me = )
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> Thanks for any help.
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> Cheers,
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> Jared Pritchard
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> The Waterexchange Pty Ltd
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