Memory Leak in Bind 9?

Wes Zuber wes at uia.net
Fri Dec 8 17:23:11 UTC 2006


Hi Mark,

We did do that on one of our name servers .. I even tried 9.3.3rc3. I  
don't quite understand why this would start suddenly.

Thanks,

--Wes

On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Mark Watts wrote:

>> After using Bind for years with the same relative configuration we
>> started to see named stop responding.
>>
>> Looking at the logs I see this:
>>
>> Dec 08 01:28:53.584 general: error: timer.c:603: unexpected error:
>> Dec 08 01:28:53.585 general: error: couldn't allocate event
>>
>> this is bind 9.2.2 on FreeBSD 4.4. I do see some other posts for the
>> same issue on this list without and answer for FreeBSD 5.5.
>>
>> As I said this just suddenly started occurring. We have a cronjob to
>> restart named twice a day to keep it living.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Wes
>
> Upgrade to BIND 9.3.2-P2 and try again.
>
> Mark.
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