BIND 8.2.1 creating lots of CPU usage for syslogd and named

[Marcel Janssen]

Michael van Elst wrote:
> 
> Apparently the machine doesn't know its own name without querying
> the nameserver. This often means that you haven't entered the
> name into /etc/hosts, but more likely, you use a search order
> of 'hosts: dns, files' or only 'hosts: dns' in /etc/nsswitch.conf.
> 
> The result ist that syslog tries to resolve the origin of each
> log message and thus creates a new query and a new log message
> in an endless recursion.
> 

I already tried "host: files dns". It doesn't matter.

Marcel