Search Again: Re: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) From: cali Date: Thursday, September 6, 2001 Time: 2:42:28 pm it is version 3.5.1 RELEASE out now? > From: Men & Mice Support <cbuxton@menandmice.com> > Reply-To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2001 14:24:31 -0700 > To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> > Subject: Re: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) > > There's a memory leak in QuickDNS Remote 3.5. It's been fixed in > QuickDNS 3.5.1 (along with several other bugfixes). > > If a query is able to crash the primary server, and if that query is > then sent to your secondary server (e.g. because the workstation that > sent it has both listed in its TCP/IP settings), the secondary is > likely to crash as well. > > Try upgrading to 3.5.1, and let us know if you continue to have these > problems. > > Regarding the load balancing question, how are you testing? Are you > using the load balance testing utility? It is the most accurate way > to test a load balance setup, since it avoids the problem of cached > answers. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Chris Buxton Men & Mice > cbuxton@menandmice.com We Make DNS Easy! > > At 8:22 PM +0200 9/6/01, Matthias Gruber wrote: >> hello, >> >> recently i did the upgrade from qdns 3.0 to 3.5. qdns server (3.0.1r2) and >> the remote agent and the load balancer are running on 2 motorola starmax >> adt4160 with 128mb ram and macos 9.1 with latest updates. >> >> the primary qdns machine is crashing very often with error 1 or 2. qdns is >> the only application on these computers (only autoboot and a retrospect are >> running too). >> >> the secondary crashes more seldom but sometime shortly after the primary. >> >> crashes do not occur while backing up, so i think retrospect does not >> interfere here. i think the macos is also clear. >> >> i did some tests and found that increasing memory for the remote agent and >> the load balancer increases the time until the next crash occurs. with the >> standard memory settings crashess occur a few times a day, now i have >> 8192kbyte set and the primary is up for nearly two days now... >> >> both machines were quite stable with qdns 3.0. >> >> i would be glad to provide more information. >> >> >> >> another question: i am doing load balancing for our webservers. one server >> is set to 9 the other to 1 so i expected to see every 10th packet going to >> the secondary webserver. the load balancer tools shows me only the primary >> server. when i stop the primary server then i get all traffic to the >> secondary, when i start the primary again, all traffic goes to it again. >> >> i checked if all qdns programs are running on both servers, and they do. >> >> bye, >> >> Matthias Gruber >> >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> (Networking, Technical Support) >> >> WOLNET Internet Service Provider >> Autorisierter Apple Haendler >> >> Hinterstrasse 21 Tel. 0271 2361830 >> D-57072 Siegen Fax. 0271 3331184 >> >> mailto: matthias.gruber@wolnet.de >> internet: http://www.wolnet.de/ > >

Messages In This Thread: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) by Matthias Gruber on Sep 6, 2001 at 11:23:43 am Re: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) by Men & Mice Support on Sep 6, 2001 at 2:26:40 pm Re: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) by cali on Sep 6, 2001 at 2:42:28 pm Re: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) by Men & Mice Support on Sep 6, 2001 at 2:58:06 pm Re: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) by cali on Sep 6, 2001 at 3:07:01 pm Re: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) by Men & Mice Support on Sep 6, 2001 at 4:14:56 pm Re: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) by Peter Schumacher on Sep 6, 2001 at 4:22:43 pm Re: some problems with qdns 3.5 (crashes, load balancing) by Matthias Gruber on Sep 9, 2001 at 1:49:55 am