Hi, thanks for your mail. Yes I mean 9.5.0-P2 (its reported from FreeBSD pkg_info the way I wrote it). And no, I didnt have an explicit setting for max-cache-size so I strongly suspect that this will be the issue (I hope so!).
Thanks a lot for your help, Andy. JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 writes: > At Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:35:44 +0100, > "andys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I am seeing SERVFAIL errors from our FreeBSD BIND 9.5.0.2 server when >> looking up MX records for google.com. > > I guess you mean 9.5.0-P2, and if so, do you explicitly specify > max-cache-size? If not, that may be an implicit reason for the > trouble. The default max-cache-size of 9.5.0-P2 is 32MB, way too > small for reasonably busy servers. Depending on your available > memory, I'd suggest specifying at least 256MB for a busy server. > > Aside from that, we're currently fixing a bug in cache entry > management of 9.5. This may also be related to your symptom, and if > so, it will hopefully be fixed in the next beta (or RC) version of > 9.5.1. > > --- > JINMEI, Tatuya > Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
