Timeouts and retries on high speed Lans

I have been working on building out a couple of large data centres and have been struggling with how to set up the systems so that we get a high resilience, highly responsive DNS service in the presence of failing equipment. The configuration we have adopted includes a layer of BIND 9.6.x servers

RE: Nesting include files in the named.conf structure

...@cohtech.com Website: http://www.cohtech.com <http://www.cohtech.com/> From: Chris Buxton [mailto:chris.p.bux...@gmail.com] Sent: Tue 2010-01-19 12:51 To: Howard Wilkinson Cc: bind-users@lists.isc.org Subject: Re: Nesting include files in the named.conf str

Nesting include files in the named.conf structure

I am structuring a named roll out which has a large amount of common data but also has variable data in the IP addresses used to reach masters. I want to include a standard file in the named.conf file which lists all of the zones to be slave from a particular master set. Within this file I want

Building 9.6.1-P2 on Solaris 10?

Does anybody have a magic configure description of what is needed to build Bind-9.6.1-P2 on Solaris 10 using native compilers and supporting the dlz-ldap features. When I run under our environment I get the following errors from the build. "../../contrib/dlz/drivers/dlz_ldap_driver.c", line 1

RE: Building 9.6.1-P2 for 32-bit Redhat RHEL 5.4

Mark, thank you for this, it almost worked but put me on the right path. In message <8761a2bbe915df46bb20e017c891e48ca...@ferrari.coherent.cohtech.co.uk >, "Howard Wilkinson" writes: > I am trying to build a package based on 9.6.1-P2. The target platform is a 32 > -bit

Building 9.6.1-P2 for 32-bit Redhat RHEL 5.4

I am trying to build a package based on 9.6.1-P2. The target platform is a 32-bit ix86 environment. The build platform is a RHEL 5.4 x86_64 system. I have managed to build the native x86_64 package without problem, but I am getting a failure when building the package using a target setting equal

Re: rdataset.c:652: REQUIRE(dbp != ((void *)0) && *dbp == ((void *)0)) failed

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: At Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:54:38 +0100, Howard Wilkinson wrote: We have had a failure of one of our BIND installations this morning. The failure happened at 01:51:45 BST on a machine that was effectively idle at the time. The previous messages logged by '

rdataset.c:652: REQUIRE(dbp != ((void *)0) && *dbp == ((void *)0)) failed

We have had a failure of one of our BIND installations this morning. The failure happened at 01:51:45 BST on a machine that was effectively idle at the time. The previous messages logged by 'named' were 30 seconds before the crash and were a zone transfer from a Microsoft 2003 DNS server of an