Win2k Server, Running Bind, Processor Issue

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Thu Jan 30 03:43:33 UTC 2003


At 03:27 PM 1/24/03, Al Bsharah wrote:

>Hi there...I know some of you will hate this, but I'm running Bind
>9.2.1 on a Win2k Server (PII 800, 320MB RAM).  I'm slowly being
>converted to the Unix world, but just one step at a time.  *grin*
>
>MS DNS simply doesn't have the features that I need...so, I'm
>upgrading!
>
>Anyway, was hoping folks could help me with this problem...  After
>installation, named.exe is hovering at about 50% processor
>utilization.  I'll post the process I took to install, and the config
>files.  It's in a very basic initial stage, so I'm not sure what it
>might be doing, as nothing is querying it but me.  Memory usage is
>only about 5MB.

Upgrade to BIND 9.2.2rc1. There was a bug in the timing loop in 9.2.1
that caused these problems. It's fixed in 9.2.2rc1.

Danny

>INSTALLATION
>* Download Bind 9.2.1 from isc.org for Win2k
>* Install
>* Go to /bin and type rndc-confgen -a
>* Go to /bin and type rndc-confgen > rndc.conf
>(I don't believe the -a command was necessary, I have since deleted
>the rndc.key file)
>* Moved rndc.conf from /bin to /etc
>* Modified named.conf and rndc.conf in /etc (see below)
>* Started up the Win2k service (ISC BIND)
>
>The service seems to be working, as I can query the box appropriately
>with nslookup on a different machine.  *Every* query is showing as
>"non-authoritative", however...if that helps any.  The processor still
>sits at around 50%.
>
>Thanks for any help...config files are below!
>Al
>
>
>#########
>RNDC.CONF
>#########
>key "rndc-key" {
>         algorithm hmac-md5;
>         secret "YEgBLAHD+oBLAHgYRBLAHA=3D=3D";
>};
>
>options {
>         default-key "rndc-key";
>         default-server 127.0.0.1;
>         default-port 953;
>};
># End of rndc.conf
>
>
>##########
>NAMED.CONF
>##########
>key "rndc-key" {
>         algorithm hmac-md5;
>         secret "YEgBLAHD+oBLAHgYRBLAHA=3D=3D";
>};
>=20
>controls {
>         inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
>                 allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "rndc-key"; };
>};
>
>zone "." { type hint; file "root.hint"; };
># End of named.conf



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