Re: bind9, openswan crashes wheezy VPS

2013-08-21 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 01:37:32PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I will be curious to hear what you find out about your problem. System crashes are always especially difficult for me to debug. I'm closing this issue with my VPS provider, so wanted to follow up here as well. My VPS provider changed

Re: bind9, openswan crashes wheezy VPS

2013-08-13 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 08:33:14PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I don't know but for example DNS will start off with a UDP query. But if the response is too large for a single UDP packet then it will change to a TCP connection for the larger data exchange. So let's say that UDP always works okay

Re: bind9, openswan crashes wheezy VPS

2013-08-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Nowak wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: without problems. So, it could very well be something with the virtio_net module. Will be interesting to see what solves this. Good luck! BTW... What do you have in /etc/nsswitch.conf? Hope it just says files dns there. $ grep hosts

Re: bind9, openswan crashes wheezy VPS

2013-08-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Nowak wrote: I have a VPS running a fresh install of wheezy, installed by me from scratch (including kernel). Everything seems to be running fine, except for bind9 and openswan which literally crash the vps as explained below. I don't know anything about why you are having system

Re: bind9, openswan crashes wheezy VPS

2013-08-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:44:35PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: I don't know anything about why you are having system crashes. But no one else responded and so I decided to jump in. Thank you for doing so. I actually went ahead and opened bugs against openswan and bind9 after getting no responses

Re: bind9, openswan crashes wheezy VPS

2013-08-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Gregory Nowak wrote: On the other hand, if it's something in the network stack, why am I for example able to query my VPS provider's servers for the same domains without crashes? If it's in the network stack, then I think it's reasonable to conclude I'd be seeing crashes regardless of what

bind9, openswan crashes wheezy VPS

2013-08-10 Thread Gregory Nowak
Hello everyone. I have a VPS running a fresh install of wheezy, installed by me from scratch (including kernel). Everything seems to be running fine, except for bind9 and openswan which literally crash the vps as explained below. I'll start with bind9, since I have more info there. It's setup as