Named is times out till restart.

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Hi! I've got a SuSE-Linux Server with Named 8.something installed.
> While the nameserver was very fast in the beginning, the lookups began
> to time out suddenly. That was a year later.

	If it is before 8.2.3-REL then it has known security flaws,
	unless it was recently patched by your vendor (since January).

> 
> Noadays, I've got to restart named using cron every hour. So, after i
> flushed the cache, the whole thing get's fast again. For another hour.
> 
> Is that a known bug in bind? Is there something wrong configured,
> possibly? A workaround?

	It sounds like the memory image is exceeding real memory and
	as a result the machine is paging heavily.

	Mark
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help, in advance.
> 
> Marco Nassenstein
> 
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