Bind 9.2.3 very, very slow starup

[Eric Dynowski]

Vinny,

Yes, I would agree, but I hadn't noticed the slow performance of the Intel
NIC until late yesterday when trying to copy files from it. Im not sure if
it's a hardware problem or kernel/driver issue interacting with bind.. I
would expect that the NIC would wither work or not work, not sort of in
between.

Eric.

> Sounds like you plain and simple just have a hardware problem which some
> people suggested. This will affect anything as you've seen with your scp.
>
> At 07:29 AM 7/16/2004, Eric Dynowski wrote:
>>Everyone,
>>
>>Just an update..
>>
>>I was about to rebuild bind on another machine and replace this one
>>because I was ran out other ideas. So I tar'ed up the /etc/bind direcory
>>to copy over, and noticed the copy (scp) was very, very, very slow.. So I
>>disabled the on board Intel NIC, installed a Netgear, and recompiled the
>>Kernel (2.4.18) without EtherExpress Pro support and with DEC Tulip
>>support, then rebooted and bind started perfectly the first time.
>>
>>Because this is a production server, Im still affraid to restart bind and
>>find out if this really solved the problem. I guess we will see what
>>happens the next time I try and restart. Has anyone ever seen a problem
>>with bind relating to network kernel drivers? I have tried different
>>kernel versions up to 2.6..
>>
>>Strange..
>>
>>Eric.
>>
>> > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:20, Eric Dynowski wrote:
>> >> > At 01:46 PM 7/13/2004, Eric Dynowski wrote:
>> >> >>Danny,
>> >> >>
>> >> >>There are no errors in the logs, so I am assuming there are none in
>> >> the
>> >> >>zone files. I have removed all zones but one and still the same
>> >> problem
>> >> >>occurs.
>> >> >>
>> >> >>Eric.
>> >> >
>> >> > run named-checkzone to make sure and named-checkconf.
>> >> >
>> >> > Danny
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Danny,
>> >>
>> >> named-checkzone, and named-checkconf return all OK. No problems
>> found.
>> >>
>> >> I ran named-checkzone on all of our zone files.
>> >>
>> >> Eric.
>> >
>> > One thing comes to mind, are you starting named *BEFORE* you have your
>> > network connections up and active?
>> >
>> > --
>> > G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
>> > PATH tech
>> >
>> >
>
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