the unkillable

Odhiambo Washington wash at wananchi.com
Sun Oct 21 12:02:58 UTC 2001


* Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> [20011020 16:06]: writing on the subject 'the unkillable'
| 
| freebsd 4.4-stable (almost a month old)
| bind 8.3.0-T2A and an 8.2.5
| 
| four days ago, i started getting reports of unkillable axfr processes
| bigtime.  while there seem to be no zombies, there are a lot of axfr
| kipple files left in this host's secondary directory.
| 
| this is not happening on a server on a sibling host on the same lan.
| 
| clues appreciated
| 
| randy

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| Oct 20 05:02:13 psg named[93807]: zone transfer timeout for "els.ac.za"; second kill pid 513 - forgetting, processes may accumulate
| Oct 20 05:11:10 psg named[93807]: zone transfer timeout for "mrc.ac.za"; second kill pid 2065 - forgetting, processes may accumulate
| Oct 20 05:12:11 psg named[93807]: zone transfer timeout for "ms.wits.ac.za"; second kill pid 2223 - forgetting, processes may accumulate
| Oct 20 05:12:41 psg named[93807]: zone transfer timeout for "nac.ac.za"; second kill pid 2322 - forgetting, processes may accumulate
| Oct 20 05:18:13 psg named[93807]: zone transfer timeout for "sfri.ac.za"; second kill pid 3287 - forgetting, processes may accumulate
| Oct 20 05:18:13 psg named[93807]: zone transfer timeout for "ru.ac.za"; second kill pid 3286 - forgetting, processes may accumulate
| Oct 20 05:30:58 psg named[93807]: zone transfer timeout for "uni.net.za"; second kill pid 5404 - forgetting, processes may accumulate
| Oct 20 05:33:48 psg named[93807]: zone transfer timeout for "up.ac.za"; second kill pid 5456 - forgetting, processes may accumulate
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While my answer might not be quite a clue, I had the same thing with one of my slave servers
here and couldn't figure out what the issue was. Killing and starting BIND didn't seem to help
much but a reboot did..pooh!

wash:~$ named -v
named 8.2.4-REL Mon Sep 24 19:16:31 EAT 2001
        wash at longonot.wananchi.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named





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