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Re: A final plea
From: Peter Nilsson
Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2001
Time: 4:42:25 am
We had a 100% reproducable lock-up in QDNS 2.x. If it tried to do zone
transfers thru a firewall where port 53 was open for UDP traffic but not
TCP, QDNS would hang indefinitely.
You have a lot of zones in the "Temporary Items" folder?
/petern
> ----------
> From: Men & Mice Support
> Reply To: QuickDNS Talk
> Sent: onsdag 14 mars 2001 11.12
> To: QuickDNS Talk
> Subject: Re: A final plea
>
> I don't have any quick fix-it info for you, unfortunately. We've
> tried repeatedly to crash QuickDNS Pro using zone transfer requests,
> without any success (or is that, "without any failure"?).
>
> We're hard at work on QuickDNS for Mac OS X, and will be releasing it
> in a few weeks.
>
> What version are you currently running? There was a bug fixed in
> 3.0.1 involving large amounts of traffic hitting the server during
> launch.
> ____________________________________________________________________
> Chris Buxton Men & Mice
> cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy!
>
> At 6:04 PM -0600 3/13/01, Mia's Virtual Post Office wrote:
> >We have gotten to the point where the frustration is too much. We are
> >still suffering from this strange crash with QDNS. It is that typical,
> >server deafness/crash/quit/just flat out dies problem that we have
> >mentioned on several occasions. We have tried everything we can think
> >of. Different machines, different versions of the OS, different
> >allocations of RAM, reinstall this, reinstall that... You name it.
> >
> >I have been studying the logs when the crashes occur for some time now,
> >and have come to the conclusion that QDNS dies during zone transfers. We
> >thought it might be excessive recursive queries or a combination of both,
> >but we eliminated that possibility by pointing users to another server
> >for recursive queries. QDNS always seems to have problems during zone
> >transfers to secondaries. I know that I have been told that this is not
> >sufficient enough load to kill the server, but I believe it is, and it
> >does.
> >
> >I came to this conclusion because every time QDNS pukes the last thing
> >that was going on was a zone transfer. And the first thing that is going
> >on when it "tries" to come back up is a zone transfer. We typically have
> >to reboot 3 or more times to get the box to come back up after a crash
> >like this. Also, if we stop/block access from all secondaries doing zone
> >transfers when we restart the server after a crash, it will come back up
> >without multiple reboots.
> >
> >At this point I am lost. The more load this server gets, the less
> >reliable it becomes. Is there a timeline on the OSX version?
> >
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> >
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