Re: general/1152: Apache DNS resolution backs up in named, eventually rendering server unusable. (fwd)

[Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>]

The following reply was made to PR general/1152; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Marc Slemko <ma...@znep.com>
To: Apache bugs database <ap...@apache.org>
Subject: Re: general/1152: Apache DNS resolution backs up in named, eventually         rendering server unusable. (fwd)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 16:03:09 -0600 (MDT)

 
 
 
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 Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:19:52 -0500 (EST)
 From: Chris Hardie <si...@TSETSE.cs.earlham.edu>
 Reply-To: silas@math.earlham.edu
 To: Marc Slemko <ma...@hyperreal.org>
 Subject: Re: general/1152: Apache DNS resolution backs up in named, eventually         rendering server unusable.
 
 
 Thank you for your reply.
 
 We have resinstalled named, bind, and other related services in previous
 attempts to solve this problem with no success.
 
 I realize that it would likely be a waste of your time to try to fix a
 problem so deeply involving "foreign" software but I believe the people
 working on it on this end have looked at many if not all of the angles and
 come up empty handed, and so I was "hoping" it would be something in the
 Apache code.
 
 Perhaps you could just tell me where to find the source where I might
 modify the DNS lookup timeouts?
 
 Thanks for your time,
 Chris Hardie
 
 On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, Marc Slemko wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: Apache DNS resolution backs up in named, eventually rendering server unusable.
 >
 > State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed
 > State-Changed-By: marc
 > State-Changed-When: Sat Sep 20 12:37:25 PDT 1997
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > I'm really not sure that this is an Apache problem or that
 > we can do anything about it.  If the DNS query isn't timing
 > out, then your DNS server is not properly timing out.
 > If you can't make it work correctly, you may need to
 > turn off reverse DNS lookups.
 >
 > What version of BIND are you using?  Try upgrading it.
 >
 > Try pointing your machine at another name server on your
 > site that has a better version of named.
 >
 > It would be possible to try modifying the timeouts for
 > name resolution, but I doubt that will help too much since
 > it is broken already.
 >
 > The fact that restarting named fixes it indicates that
 > named is blocking in a query and not properly returning
 > an answer or a failure as it should.
 >
 
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