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- From: karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger)
- Subject: Re: Namesevice on RS/6000....
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.022927.11074@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Summary: More commentary
- Organization: Macro Computer Solutions, Inc., Chicago, IL
- References: <-y@byu.edu> <1992Aug7.224954.11534@ddsw1.mcs.com> <168eqjINNgio@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 02:29:27 GMT
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- In article <168eqjINNgio@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug7.224954.11534@ddsw1.mcs.com> karl@ddsw1.mcs.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
- >>Get BIND 4.8.3, and load AIX 3.2 if you haven't already. Making this work
- >>on 3.1.5 is NOT fun.
- >
- >Let me correct you: 4.8.3 works fine on both 3.1 and 3.2 (I'm using the
- >3.1 executable on the 3.2 here).
-
- Not "off the net" I don't believe; I tried it, and it didn't work well at
- all. The pertinent problem appears to be a few very old include files.
-
- All fixed in 3.2 however.
-
- >>On 3.2 the port is relatively straight-forward. Then you will have a
- >>working named...
- >
- >In fact I don't remember having ported anything. Just compile and go
- >(with the BSD options).
-
- On 3.2 you are correct.
-
- >>Oh yeah, don't forget to start it directly, NOT from srcmstr. If you forget
- >>this you'll end up with lots of named's (thousands) running and a crashed
- >>machine.
- >
- >Nope. Bind should not do this as it simply won't bind twice to the socket.
- >The typical message in the syslog would be:
- >
- >Aug 10 16:01:01 g1 named[3683]: restarted
- >Aug 10 16:01:01 g1 named[3683]: bind(vs, 0.0.0.0[53]): Address already in use
-
- Which you will get repeatedly and forever, as srcmstr tries to spawn another
- copy when the first one dies. Srcmstr is somewhat like init(1) in this
- respect :-)
-
- If your machine has the right load characteristics, bind will background
- itself quickly enough that you >will< end up with lots of them running.
- I've had this happen; wasn't fun.
-
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- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl)
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