Tony Gogoi said: > > Hello, > > This question is more like hitting in the dark, I guess. > > We have a primary and secondary DNS server. Twice or thrice so far since > "named" automatically failed. Eg. on those times, I simply typed > "/etc/rc.d/init/named restart" It showed "STOP - FAILED", "START - OK", > after which things were normal. > > I was wondering if anyone could give me pointers what could cause "named" > to be down automatically simultaneously on both primary and secondary DNS > servers. Probably a bad record, spelling mistake, typo, etc. in your zone files. nslint is your friend in this case. > Individually each of the servers function properly. So, there should be > some event (which got unlogged) which trigerred both servers to shut down > "named"? > > There was nothing abnormal in the log files. Also, "named" was down on > both primary and secondary DNS servers on each occasion. Depending on the undisclosed version of your undisclosed DNS software, there is probably a log setting that can help you debug this. Either way, you should at least get a 'named died/shutdown/killed' message some place. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
