Help please: bind 9.3.0

[Eirik Toft]

My only question would be -

On your dinosaur, how big is your swap file? - I've had a similar issue
myself, turned out I needed to simply increase the swap-file size.

Although - I agree with the other statement - RAM is cheap, buy some...

Eirik

"Thomas Kinghorn [MTNNS -Rosebank]" <thomask at mtnns.net> wrote in message
news:csghn9$1atr$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Hi List.
> Thanks for all the great info in the archive.
>
> I have a strange problem.
>
> My name-server keeps running out of memory, which is causing lookups to
> fail.
>
> Below is an extract from the named.conf.
>
> The bind version is 9.3.0.
>
> The server is a dinosaur running 128MB.
>
>
> <snip>
> // generated by named-bootconf.pl
> acl "bogon" {
> // this list of blackhole ACLs!
>     0.0.0.0/8;
>     10.0.0.0/8;
>     127.0.0.0/8;
>     172.16.0.0/12;
> };
>
> options {
> datasize 20M;
> max-journal-size 5M;
> interface-interval 0;
> max-cache-size 20M;
> memstatistics-file "named.memstats";
> version "port not supported";
> pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
> allow-query { any; };
>
> directory "/var/named";
>         /*
>          * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>          * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
>          * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
>          * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
>          * port by default.
>          */
> // query-source address * port 53;
>
> allow-transfer { 209.212.96.0/19; localhost; };
>
> allow-transfer { 209.212.96.0/19; localhost; };
>
>         blackhole {
>                 // Deny anything from the bogon networks as
>                 // detailed in the "bogon" ACL.
>         bogon;
>     };
> };
> <snip>
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>