On Oct 20 2008, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote: >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.
Would having too small a cache really cause sporadic SERVFAILs? I thought that 9.5.x's super new cache cleaning algorithms were meant to prevent the long dead periods of previous versions. >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. Fix number? (so that we will recognise it in the CHANGES file in due course!) -- Chris Thompson Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
