ISC statement about BIND9's recent -P1 releases

[Danny Mayer]

George R. Kasica wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:21:15 -0700, Steve Lancaster
> <stevelan at cesa.opbu.xerox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Well... while it's 
>>
>> <http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/DNS-patch-causes-BIND-blunder/0,1300
>> 61744,339290928,00.htm>
>>
>> certainly "another view" on the same facts.. I find it a particularly 
>> distasteful one...
>>
> Steve:
> 
> I agree with you and others here, ISC has done a great job in short
> time.
> 
> As one whose "other job" is as a flight RN on a helicopter (medical
> transport) lets put it this way....no one is dying cause your name
> servers are crashing...in this area you get one chance to fix a
> problem and if you guess wrong or hesitate too long someone may truly
> suffer due to is.....name server crashing is not that area for sure.
> 
> I think everyone needs to take a nice deep breath, relax, ISC will
> come up with a fix soon, and for now if its crashing look into
> something like maybe psmon to keep an eye on it and kick it back in
> (at least in the *nix) world.
> 
> Now if someone can tell me how to do the same restart in Windoze I'd
> be much appreciative, (Not my strong suit and I've got one box here
> with 9.5.p1 on it that dies at random.
> 

Just go into the Services Computer Management, select ISC BIND and go 
into properties. Select the Recovery Tab and set the action you want the 
service to take when it dies.

Danny
> George