named.exe terminated unexpectedly in Bind 9.5.0 for Windows 2000 server

2010-02-15 Thread Chandan Laskar
Dear All, We are using ISC Bind 9.5.0 in Windows 2000 server with SP4 environment for one of our DNS. After installation initially it was working fine but last few days in a interval of 48 hours (approx) ISC Bind service terminated unexpectedly. After observing the system log I found the bel

Supporting large caches (> 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread Shumon Huque
I'm trying to support large caches with BIND on our campus resolvers, but have run into several constraints. The machines in question are Solaris 10/ultrasparc, running BIND 9.6.1-P3. It appears that 32-bit versions of BIND on Solaris 10 can't exceed 2GB without crashing. I see other reports of th

Re: Supporting large caches (> 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread sthaug
> I've recompiled the nameserver as a 64-bit program and confirmed > that they can now exceed 2GB. But I'd like to be able support > much larger cache sizes. We have some CS researchers on campus > that are making heavy use of our recursive resolvers. I'd like > to support their research but I need

Re: Supporting large caches (> 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread Shumon Huque
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 05:46:25PM +0100, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > I've recompiled the nameserver as a 64-bit program and confirmed > > that they can now exceed 2GB. But I'd like to be able support > > much larger cache sizes. We have some CS researchers on campus > > that are making heavy use

Re: Supporting large caches (> 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread sthaug
> > Have you *measured* the hit rate of your current BIND resolvers > > with different cache sizes? How many queries per second are you > > trying to support? > > We do about 3,000 queries/second typically. I haven't measured query > -rates vs cache sizes. We've had max-cache-size set to 3GB for a

DNSSEC: Configuring auto-signed dynamic zone

2010-02-15 Thread Eugene Crosser
Hello everyone, I am new here. I am running a manually signed zone (average.org) for my domain for some time now. I also have a separate subdomain zone (dyn.average.org) that allows dynamic updates, and that is currently not signed. Bind version is 9.5.1. (debian stable). I would like to make dyn

BIND 9.6.2rc1 make test question

2010-02-15 Thread John Center
Hi, I just built BIND 9.6.2rc1 & make test passes except for the following: A:the dst module provides the capability to verify data signed with the RSA and DSA algorithms I:testing t2_data_1, t2_dsasig, test., 23616, DST_ALG_DSA, ISC_R_SUCCESS I:testing t2_data_1, t2_rsasig, test., 54622, DST_

Re: Supporting large caches (> 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread Shumon Huque
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 06:47:45PM +0100, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: > > > Have you *measured* the hit rate of your current BIND resolvers > > > with different cache sizes? How many queries per second are you > > > trying to support? > > > > We do about 3,000 queries/second typically. I haven't meas

Re: Supporting large caches (> 4GB) in BIND?

2010-02-15 Thread Chris Thompson
On Feb 15 2010, Shumon Huque wrote: [...] But there is a hardcoded limit of 4GB (ISC_UINT32_MAX) for the max-cache-size parameter: bin/named/server.c: if (value > ISC_UINT32_MAX) { cfg_obj_log(obj, ns_g_lctx, ISC_LOG_ERROR,

Re: DNSSEC: Configuring auto-signed dynamic zone

2010-02-15 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4b798db8.2050...@average.org>, Eugene Crosser writes: > > Hello everyone, I am new here. > > I am running a manually signed zone (average.org) for my domain for some > time now. I also have a separate subdomain zone (dyn.average.org) that > allows dynamic updates, and that is current