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From: jftucker at gmail.com (James Tucker)
Subject: unexplained crashes of named

Um, log & grep?


On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:48:05 +0100, Przemyslaw Frasunek
<venglin@...ebsd.lublin.pl> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm experiencing recently strange crashes of named 8.3.7 (shipped with FreeBSD
> 4.9). It never happened before, but since last saturday, it occured five times.
> Named suddenly stops responding to all queries and starts growing until it
> exhausts all RAM and swap space.
> 
> Has anyone seen this before? It'll be hard to capture specific packets causing
> this, because my nameserver processes 2000+ queries/s.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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