Comments re BIND on Win32?

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Wed Jun 27 14:38:33 UTC 2001


Thor Kottelin wrote:

> Jonathan Ah Kit wrote:
>
> > anyone have any comments on the Win32 distro of
> > BIND?
>
> 8.2.4-REL works reasonably well for me on my workstation, slaving for a
> few domains (memory usage right now is 49 M RAM + 71 M swap). If I try to
> use more than ten slaves for a domain, it crashes. Sometimes it just
> forgets to update a zone from a master, even if the zone expires.
> Sometimes it just crashes, so I have a script that restarts it when
> necessary (losing the cache is, of course, a pity)... I prefer BIND over
> the braindead Microsoft DNS server any day though.

    If you are seeing problems like that you should file a bug report by sending

mail to bind-bugs at isc.org with details of the problem and the event log
before the crash. It's important to see the master logs as well as the slave it
was transferring to.

        Danny



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