Update returns FORMERR: ran out of space

Mark Andrews marka at isc.org
Wed Feb 24 00:32:35 UTC 2010


In message <20100223135615.GA30553 at nic.fr>, Stephane Bortzmeyer writes:
> Trying to add/delete DNSSEC keys with dynamic update (first time I try
> that), the nsupdate client gets a FORMERR and BIND logs:
> 
> Feb 23 14:53:24 jezabel named[10174]: client ::1#29411: updating zone 'bortzm
> eyer.fr/IN': RRSIG/NSEC/NSEC3 update failed: ran out of space
> 
> I checked the disk space (plenty) but I suspect that the problem is
> more complicated.

Turn the debugging up to 3.  The log message is a result of
update_signatures() detecting a error.

"ran out of space" usually means a fixed sized buffer is not big
enough or the change exceeded a architectual limit of the protocol.

Mark

> I can add A records just fine:
> 
> Feb 23 14:55:46 jezabel named[10174]: client ::1#51231: updating zone 'bortzm
> eyer.fr/IN': adding an RR at 'created-dyn-1266933346-8636.bortzmeyer.fr' A
> 
> BIND 9.7.0 built with '--without-idnlib' '--without-dlz' '--without-idn' '--w
> ith-libxml2=yes' '--enable-openssl'
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