Re: BIND hangs with 2.6.14

[Andrew Walrond]

On Monday 31 October 2005 10:17, Stefan Schmidt,,, wrote:
> In linux.kernel, you wrote:
> > Unfortunately, the machine does quite a bit of other work apart from
> > BIND, so unless somebody can reproduce this on another machine, it will
> > be a bit difficult.
>
> I saw the same error with 2.6.14-rc5 and filed bug #5505 against it. I

I'm suprised 2.6.14 went out the door without this being resolved. I'm glad I 
spotted this thread in time to avoid upgrading my servers! I guess it was 
reported on the cusp of the release though.

> was also able to reproduce the behaviour using the same kernel and same
> library/compiler versions on another machine using the same set of zones
> and tcpreplay to simulate the query load. Our machine gets around 10
> queries per second at ~40k slave zones. BIND version is 9.3.2v1 which
> runs smoothly on our in-production nameserver with kernel 2.6.13.4 now.
>
> netdev and the usual suspects are aware of the problem.

I guess I'll  follow this on bugzilla.

Andrew Walrond
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