BIND 9.5.0-P2 crash on solaris 8 : socket.c:2586: fatal error:

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 Jinmei_Tatuya at isc.org
Tue Sep 9 02:11:07 UTC 2008


At Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:56:13 -0400,
Jeffrey Collyer <jwc3f at virginia.edu> wrote:

> Running bind 9.5.0-P2 with -DISC_SOCKET_FDSETSIZE=8192
> on Solaris 8, recently patched, on Sparc.  Server is DNS only, on 
> reasonably old hardware, and thus fairly busy most of the time.
> 
> Got this in the the logs :
> 
> named[9706]: [ID 873579 local4.crit] socket.c:2586: fatal error:
> named[9706]: [ID 873579 local4.crit] select() failed: Invalid argument
> named[9706]: [ID 873579 local4.crit] exiting (due to fatal error in library)
> 
> and named had to be restarted.  I know that there have been a few others 
> reporting this on the list, but I wanted to add one to the frequency 
> counter.

I don't know much about Solaris 8, but from my experiences with other
versions of Solaris, it requires redefining FD_SETSIZE in order to use
a larger size of FD set for select().  Please try increasing
FD_SETSIZE directly, i.e., rebuild BIND9 with -DFD_SETSIZE=8192.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.


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