BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

Vinny Abello vinny at tellurian.com
Tue Sep 9 19:19:12 UTC 2008


I think you're looking for this:
http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm94/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#id2574908

http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm94/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#the_category_phrase


The channel names are whatever you want to call them. It's the categories that are predefined.

-Vinny

From: Vincent Poy [mailto:vincepoy at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:55 PM
To: Vinny Abello
Cc: wizzy at wizzy.co.uk; comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding

Thanks, I have a question.  Is there somewhere on the net that has something explaining the different variables and options for the logging config since in Unix, everything is sent to the systemlog but with Windows, it's another story.  Also, other than the different filesnames of your channels, wouldn't the output be identical or does named actually have defined names of the type which is what the channel names are?  Thanks.

Cheers,
Vince

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Vinny Abello <vinny at tellurian.com<mailto:vinny at tellurian.com>> wrote:
We do something like this:

logging {
       channel named_log {
               file "c:\bind\log\named.log" versions 3 size 1m;
               severity dynamic;
               print-category yes;
               print-time yes;
       };
       channel security_log {
               file "c:\bind\log\security.log" versions 3 size 1m;
               severity dynamic;
               print-category yes;
               print-time yes;
       };
       channel update_log {
               file "c:\bind\log\update.log" versions 3 size 1m;
               severity dynamic;
               print-category yes;
               print-time yes;
       };
       channel xfer_log {
               file "c:\bind\log\xfer.log" versions 3 size 1m;
               severity dynamic;
               print-category yes;
               print-time yes;
       };
       category default { named_log; };
       category lame-servers { null; };
       category security { security_log; };
       category update { update_log; };
       category update-security { update_log; };
       category xfer-in { xfer_log; };
       category xfer-out { xfer_log; };
};


The user created to run named is a standard user by default. Be sure they have permissions to write to the directory you specify in your configuration.

-Vinny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org<mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org> [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org<mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org>] On
> Behalf Of Vincent Poy
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 12:25 PM
> To: wizzy at wizzy.co.uk<mailto:wizzy at wizzy.co.uk>
> Cc: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org<mailto:comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org>
> Subject: Re: BIND 9.4.2-P2-W1 stops responding
>
> 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{
>         };
> };
>
> Cheers,
> Vince
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:27 AM, <wizzy at wizzy.co.uk<mailto:wizzy at wizzy.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> > On 5 Sep, 18:33, Vinny Abello <vi... at tellurian.com<mailto: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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