Weird named act!

[Holdsworth, Matthew]

Dear All,

Can anyone shed any light on this one:

We run BIND 9.2 on Solaris 8

Every now and again we have to restart the named process on our DNS server.
Reason being, it stops resolving anything outside of its own zone.

Eg.
Our resolv.conf file contains the line:

search lond.dtv.cwctv.net lond.dtv.ntl dtv.cwctv.net dtv.ntl
ops.dtv.cwctv.net ops.dtv.ntl

Now, when the problem occurs it will only resolv hosts from the first one in
the search list. It wont even forward queries for external hosts (web sites)
to our internet facing servers.

After restarting the named process we can then resolv hosts from all the
above zones and web sites.

I wondered if it could be the option 'datasize' being set too small. Ours is
just 20M.

Any ideas?

Regards

Matt


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