Re: [tlug] Box Freezes Up: named at fault?

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

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On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 03:46:00PM +0900, Shawn wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> My box (FreeBSD) went offline yesterday. The screen was blank/black and frozen, 
> and the reset button wouldn't work. I powered off and powered on again. 
> An hour or so later, the same thing happened. 
> 
> Checking /var/log/messages, I see a bunch of lines like this (for the domains
> for which my box is the slave DNS server) just before the box dies:
> 
> Jan 29 13:29:52 skibo named-xfer[34085]: [210.239.161.186] not authoritative for hojin.or.jp, SOA query got rcode 0, aa 0, ancount 0, aucount 5 
> 
> I'm  using BIND version 8.
> Here's some info from my named.conf file:

Which version of FreeBSD?  In 5.x, I was sometimes getting lockups,
though the reset button would work.  

Is it a custom kernel, and if so, are you using SCHED_ULE?  (That has
had a few problems as well.)

Lastly, both fxp and en network card drivers were both having problems
at one point, fixed now, I believe.  (I have an fxp driver on 6.x--I
haven't had this type of problem since upgrading.)

6.x is also snappier, (IMO, subjective only, no benchmarks) and it's
worth upgrading if possble.


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