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Apache
01-16-2002, 12:14 AM
Does BIND store any logs? My DNS crashes every two hours or so.

allan
01-16-2002, 12:36 AM
If it is a Linux box, the logs should be in /var/log/messages

priyadi
01-16-2002, 02:32 AM
If you are still using BIND 8, you might want to upgrade to 9. BIND 8 doesn't limit its memory use, so it might crash some time, especially on busy servers.

Apache
01-16-2002, 04:29 AM
Ye I found out BIND9 is not that stable, but i got checksrvd working so I hope that works.

thewitt
01-16-2002, 11:12 AM
You guys having BIND problems should consider switching to DBJDNS (Formerly TinyDNS). It's faster, more stable, and more secure.

-t

priyadi
01-16-2002, 02:16 PM
Originally posted by thewitt
You guys having BIND problems should consider switching to DBJDNS (Formerly TinyDNS). It's faster, more stable, and more secure.

-t

Yes, I was about to say the same thing :) Here is my list of good things about djbdns:

- more secure
- much lighter on memory usage
- it loads immediately, BIND take minutes to load if you have thousands of domains
- it doesn't not randomly crash, unlike BIND
- it separates caches and data