named stop answering

[Kevin Darcy]

Eric Allard wrote:

> Need help!
>
> We are an ISP running named 8.2.6 on solaris 8. We have been running
> this version for one year without any problem.
> One week ago, we began to have some problems. Sometimes, named stop
> answering without any error in the
> namedlog and whithout using any cpu. To remedy to this, we have to do a
> "kill -9" and restart the process.
> What should be the problem and what would be the solution?

You could turn on debugging to get to the root cause of the problem. Or,
you could just upgrade to 8.3.* or 9.* and see if the problem goes away.


- Kevin