On Monday 11 November 2002 06:53 pm, you wrote: > Jim Tarvid wrote on Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 06:27:01PM -0500 : > > I had three reboots last night due to a nasty power outage. > > > > In two of the three cases, named loaded zones (180) slowly and httpd had > > trouble with name resoltion (130 virtuals) (makes sense). In both cases, > > the machine could be made functional by stopping and starting named and > > httpd, maybe more than once. > > httpd being slow is a symptom of not being able to resolve dns. > Agreed. PHP fails and says so.
> > In the third case, the machine came up flawlessly. > > I am beginning to blame BIND 9.2.1. > > Make note that during this whole time, it's quite possible that your > cablemodem/dsl provider had equipment down somewhere further up the > line, resulting in not being able to reach your gateway. As a test, > unplug your network cable and reboot the machine. If everything starts > going slow, it's probably due to not being able to reach your gateway. > It is an AT&T T1 which I was using from another machine at the time. I know when the gateway is down. If this machine is having trouble reaching the gateway it is because networking is not functional on this machine. I suspect that is not the case because I can ssh in from another machine during this ugly process and stop named which allows the boot to proceed normally except that httpd is often not functional. > IOW, I think it's a NETWORKING issue, having nothing to do with bind or > httpd or any other program that's running. > > Blue skies... Todd
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