RHEL 6 CPU load

2013-11-20 Thread -
We recently upgraded one of our DNS servers to RHEL 6. The other two servers are running RHEL 5. The new system is showing much higher CPU load than the other two (RHEL 5 machines sit around 11-15%). I am not sure if this is related to the OS versions or something else. The build procedure for the

Re: RHEL 6 CPU load

2013-11-20 Thread Blake Hudson
Daniel, what do you see the load as? I see 4.6% CPU usage (100% possible - 95.4% idle). I'm not sure which versions of BIND you were using on RHEL5, but the newer versions do tend to use more CPU usage (I'll assume due to new features, patches, etc in the BIND code). --Blake - wrote the fol

Re: RHEL 6 CPU load

2013-11-20 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Blake Hudson Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:03 AM To: "bind-users@lists.isc.org" Subject: Re: RHEL 6 CPU load >Daniel, what do you see the load as? I see 4.6% CPU usage (100% possible >- 95.4% idle). Wondering the same. Don't consider 0.00 high load. ;

Re: RHEL 6 CPU load

2013-11-20 Thread -
>> Daniel, what do you see the load as? I see 4.6% CPU usage (100% possible >> - 95.4% idle). > > > Wondering the same. Don't consider 0.00 high load. ;-) > :-) I guess I need to be a little better at explaining my self. It made perfect sense to me. I am talking about the named process which can

Re: RHEL 6 CPU load

2013-11-20 Thread Blake Hudson
- wrote the following on 11/20/2013 10:46 AM: Daniel, what do you see the load as? I see 4.6% CPU usage (100% possible - 95.4% idle). Wondering the same. Don't consider 0.00 high load. ;-) :-) I guess I need to be a little better at explaining my self. It made perfect sense to me. I am ta

Re: RHEL 6 CPU load

2013-11-20 Thread -
> Depending on your OS and Bind settings, Bind may be performing IPv6/ > queries in parallel to IPv4/A queries. If IPv6 is disabled on your RHEL5 > server I suspect they may only be performing IPv4/A queries during > recursion. You might check if this is, at least in part, responsible for the >

Re: Listen queue overflow

2013-11-20 Thread Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.
On 2013-11-18 17:57, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. wrote: On 2013-11-14 17:04, Mark Andrews wrote: In message M>, vinny_abe...@dell.com writes: Hi Everyone, I recently had a recursive server running BIND 9.9.4 on FreeBSD 9.2 appear to wedge and stop responding to clients. I had a flurry of these e

Re: RHEL 6 CPU load

2013-11-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 20.11.13 09:46, - wrote: Daniel, what do you see the load as? I see 4.6% CPU usage (100% possible - 95.4% idle). Wondering the same. Don't consider 0.00 high load. ;-) :-) I guess I need to be a little better at explaining my self. It made perfect sense to me. I am talking about the na

BIND9-ARM (HTML) feature request: better hyperlinking in/of chapter 6

2013-11-20 Thread /dev/rob0
BIND9 is very well documented with the BIND9-ARM. I keep a browser bookmark to it, and I refer to it quite often. I can always find what I am seeking. But, as with most things, improvement is possible. :) Chapter 6 is the comprehensive configuration reference. What I'd like to see is more (and

Re: BIND9-ARM (HTML) feature request: better hyperlinking in/of chapter 6

2013-11-20 Thread Evan Hunt
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 03:27:59PM -0600, /dev/rob0 wrote: > Looking at the HTML source for the Table of Contents, it seems like > someone had this idea before but didn't follow through. There are > numerous links to plain-language anchors amidst mostly the > "id25x" anchor names. (These pro

Re: RHEL 6 CPU load

2013-11-20 Thread Blake Hudson
- wrote the following on 11/20/2013 12:30 PM: Depending on your OS and Bind settings, Bind may be performing IPv6/ queries in parallel to IPv4/A queries. If IPv6 is disabled on your RHEL5 server I suspect they may only be performing IPv4/A queries during recursion. You might check if this is

Host spans Multi-Domains

2013-11-20 Thread Davis, Donald W
I'm looking for some help with the following configuration. I have a request to add aliases for a server so that it can resolve in two different subdomains. I have a server "red" that is running some McAfee software and is used to scan servers in multiple sub-domains. Example: red.aa.bb.com

dig 9.9.[234] unable to do zone transfers from MS windows Domain Controllers

2013-11-20 Thread ciphernix
I'm using dig to perform health checks on DNS servers. I've recently noticed that I'm unable to complete a full zone transfer from Windows DC when using a version of dig 9.9.2 or newer (I haven't tried older revisions of dig 9.9.x). Dig starts to pull the records from Microsoft Windows DC but fa

dig 9.9.[234] unable to do zone transfers from MS windows Domain Controllers

2013-11-20 Thread cypher Nix
I'm using dig to perform health checks on DNS servers. I've recently noticed that I'm unable to complete a full zone transfer from Windows DC when using a version of dig 9.9.2 or newer (I haven't tried older revisions of dig 9.9.x). Dig starts to pull the records from Microsoft Windows DC but fails

RE: Host spans Multi-Domains

2013-11-20 Thread Davis, Donald W
A correction. There is only a single IP address for this server. I'm looking for some help with the following configuration. I have a request to add aliases for a server so that it can resolve in two different subdomains. I have a server "red" that is running some McAfee software and is used t

Re: dig 9.9.[234] unable to do zone transfers from MS windows Domain Controllers

2013-11-20 Thread Evan Hunt
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 09:46:40PM -0500, cypher Nix wrote: > Bind 9.9.x is able to perform zone transfers from the Windows DC > without any issue. Performing a named-checkzone against the zone file > with bind 9.9.4 and bind 9.9.2 returns no errors. It looks like the > issue is just with DIG 9.9.2