On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 02:00:44AM -0700, sexyboy wrote:

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> Hi All,
> 
> I have applied the 004 and 005 patches and I still have a same problem. 
> The named kick itself out, I can not see anything suspicious in a log file
> the only massage is when hit top command I can see this:
>  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    WAIT      TIME    CPU COMMAND
>  4670 named      2    0     19M     20M sleep    ip6_opt    0:09  0.00%
> named  
> 
> Anyone have any idea what can I do to fix this bug?

Looks like you didn't apply the kernel patch correctly. Check if you really
are running a patched kernel.

	-Otto
	
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> 
> Cheers,
> ON
> 
> 
> Steve Shockley wrote:
> > 
> > Is anyone having issues between patched BIND and running out of file 
> > descriptors?  I saw the thread at http://marc.info/?m=121711077022388, 
> > but that's somewhat vague.
> > 
> > The problem: I deployed two OpenBSD 4.3 BIND servers to replace a 
> > complex series of Windows and other DNS servers on 7/26.  The install 
> > included the 004 patch.
> > 
> > About 24 hours later, one of the servers (the primary) died.  Named was 
> > still running, the server was still accepting connections on port 53, 
> > but never answering.  This became a problem because several other 
> > servers continued to use the primary instead of the secondary because 
> > the primary was "answering" but timing out.  Attempts to kill named were 
> > unsuccessful.  Load average was near zero.
> > 
> > My first guess was that I ran out of file descriptors.  An associate 
> > found some Linux documentation for BIND somewhere that suggested 16384 
> > files.  I've toyed with kern.maxfiles and login.conf, and I can't get 
> > the max files anywhere near that, which probably implies I don't want to.
> > 
> > So, my question is, how can I configure this box to avoid this problem? 
> >   What is a reasonable kern.maxfiles for a moderately busy DNS caching 
> > resolver?  Is errata 005 really the answer I'm looking for, even though 
> > I don't use IPv6?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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