Re: [tlug] Restarting a dead DNS lookup

[Brett Robson <b-robson@example.com>]

Jim Breen wrote:

>G'day all,
>
>Greetings from warm old Melbourne, where we are having record
>hot days and nights for autumnal April. Maybe Tokyo can ship us
>some coolth.
>  
>

but you get the rain as well....


>(a) every so often (maybe once every 3 weeks on average) the DNS
>support on my RH7.3 system quietly dies. The ISP's DNS servers are
>still there, I can still get packets out to hosts I address by IP
>address,  /etc/resolv.conf is OK, but I can't resolve any addresses.
>
>  
>

There was a version of bind 8 that had a memory leak and part of it
died, what version are you running?




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