Re: named spinning

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20111009141003.2BACE115368%xen1.duzan.org@localhost>,
Gary Duzan  <gary%duzan.org@localhost> wrote:
>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.

Please file a bug report with ISC.

christos