Curious Behaviour of bind 8.2.3-Rel

[Len Conrad]

>i have noticed a courious behaviour of my bind name server, which has been
>updated to 8.2.3-REL a few weeks ago (RedHat 6.2).
>
>After some days/a week the named does not work anymore. After executing
>"/etc/rc.d/init.d/named restart" everything (concerning named) is working
>again as it should be - until the next hangup.
>
>Is there anyone else with the same problem, or someone with hints where to
>look for solving this? I tried several search engines, but had no useful
>results :-( ...

you´ve got NS and MX records pointing at CNAMEs

mgw1# dig @FOXBAT.DOE.gov your.energy.gov any

you´ve got delegation errors

neither primary or secondary MX is responding for energy.gov.

Len


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