BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

[Mark Andrews]

	You still need to tell named to *use* the channel you defined.

	Mark

> Speaking about logs using BIND in Windows, how are you guys configuring your
> named.conf file because even though I have configured the named.conf as
> follows for logs, the named.log gets created by BIND with 0 bytes but has
> remained at 0 bytes ever since.  Thanks!
>         logging {
>         channel named_log {
>                 file "c:\windows\system32\dns\log\named.log" versions 3 size
> 1m;
>                 severity dynamic;
>                 print-category yes;
>                 print-time yes;
>         };
>         category default{

		named_log;

>         };
> };
> 
> Cheers,
> Vince
> 
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:27 AM, <wizzy at wizzy.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On 5 Sep, 18:33, Vinny Abello <vi... at tellurian.com> wrote:
> > > I just upgraded from BIND 9.4.2 to BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 on Windows Server
> > 2003. The service no longer crashes like it did in P1 and P2, however after
> > about 12 hours of load, named just stops responding to queries completely.
> > The service appears that it is still running but will not respond to any
> > type of query. I've restarted it and it came back to life again. I'm going
> > to watch it more carefully to look for any other types of symptoms. I
> > checked the log files and nothing out of the ordinary was in the logs. In
> > fact, according to the logs, it appears that zone transfers were still
> > happily taking place while it was not responding to queries.
> > >
> >  [snip]
> > >
> > > Some possible information that might help with this server's
> > configuration. This server has multiple IPv4 IP addresses bound to the same
> > network and same NIC. There is no IPv6 stack installed on the server. This
> > server currently does recursion and also hosts some secondary zones as well
> .
> > >
> > > -Vinny
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just want to add a 'me too'. We've got a very similar setup: Windows
> > 2003 SP2 with multiple IPv4 addresses bound to a single NIC. No IPv6.
> > Server is authoratitive for about 300 zones files and also recurses.
> > Just stops answering UDP queries after a few hours, it's OK if you
> > stop and restart it. No event logs worth mentioning.
> >
> > Darren
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 
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