Dispatch errors

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:50:17 -0600,
"Laws, Peter C." <plaws at ou.edu> wrote:

> Feb 13 09:01:22.663 dispatch: dispatch 0x3fdcc088: shutting down due to TCP receive error: connection reset
> 
> What do these really mean?  Is that hex after the second instance of

Most likely a remote authoritative server closed a TCP connection for
a TCP query (probably after fall-back from UDP due to truncation) in a
non-graceful manner.  It's not an expected event, but is not a bad
thing per se.

> 'dispatch' meaningful to an admin or only to a BIND codemonkey?  Not

The latter.  It's the memory address of an internal data structure
typed dns_dispatch_t.

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JINMEI, Tatuya
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