Ok I'll ask the obvious, perhaps stupid question, if it's so good, why isn't
NetBSD replacing the 8 with 9?

BIND 4 is a thing of the past for NetBSD...

However, I will upgrade one and if all is well, go with it on the rest.

Thanks for the heads up!

jam


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@workofstone.com>
To: "John Maier" <jmaier@midamerica.net>
Cc: <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:15 PM
Subject: Re: BIND core dumps on large DNS tables - was Re: BIND and big
giant RBL PLUS!!!! table wahoo!


>
> > Which brings me to another point, BIND is not able to contend with lists
> > list large!
> >
> > With databases this large, BIND cores after a period of time.
> > It's gotten so bad, that I've had to initiate a cron that checks every
min
> > to see if named is running, if not start it.
> >
> > This is on two different servers, with latest named 8.3.4-REL
> >
> > I am beginning to look at alternative DNS programs, the problem is so
bad!
> >
> > I would rather not have to go to this extreme but...
>
> Why don't you use BIND-9.2?  It's a rewrite and runs great.  With a couple
> of modifications I'm using the BIND8 rc script to startup BIND9 with the
> chrooted environment.
>
> I use to have problems with BIND8 disappearing on me, hasn't happened
> since I went 9.
>
> -Sean
>
> --
> Sean J. Schluntz           schluntz@workofstone.com
> Sr. Security Consultant               Work of Stone
>
>