Re: named spinning

[Gary Duzan <gary%duzan.org@localhost>]

In Message <4E8F0ABA.1080508%eqdaemons.de@localhost>,
   Stefan Hertenberger <bsd%eqdaemons.de@localhost>wrote:

=>Am 05.10.2011 13:49, schrieb Gary Duzan:
=>>     Since upgrading current on Sunday my named has been sucking CPU.
=>> Restarting it doesn't help, tcpdump shows no significant domain
=>> traffic on any interface, and a ktruss shows it just looping:
=>>
=>> [ ... ]
=>>
=>Hi,
=>
=>had the same problem, it was caused by a missing directory 
=>"/etc/namedb/keys" after creating it, everything was fine.
=>
=>Hope this helps.

   That was it. So it looks like there are two issues. First, while
the installer is creating /var/chroot/named/etc/namedb/keys, it is
not creating /etc/namedb/keys. Second, bind is not recovering
gracefully when the directory isn't there.

   Thanks.

                                        Gary Duzan