Re: More Problems with DNS stopping randomly.

Steve Spesard ( steves@webaccess.net )
Fri, 06 Mar 1998 05:29:39 -0700

I too have had this problem with Metainfo DNS 2.1. I have upgraded to
the latest build 668 that helped alot, but every once and awhile I will
still get a Dr. Watson and the service stops. You probably will not
like this but my solution was to move our primary DNS to Linux and use
bind 8.1.1. Metainfo wanted to much to upgrade me to 3.0. If anybody
does figure out the Metainfo problem please let me know.

Steve Spesard

Bill Fisher wrote:

> I have been battling this same problem except I use Metainfo's DNS
> 2.5.
> If I use NSLooup and try to bring up any domain from that DNS server
> I
> get timeouts or long pauses.
>
> I found one thing that I was doing wrong according to the DNS & Bind
> book. I had multiple "A" records pointed to the same IP. I have
> taken
> those records out and made one "A" record pointing to the IP and
> "CNAME" records pointing to the "A" record. This seems to helped, but
>
> I'm still having the problems. If anyone could shed some light on
> either of these problems it would be much appreciated.
>
> Bill Fisher
> dns1.excelsoft.com
>
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> > From: Beverly Wise <bev@hyper-drive.com>
> > To: NTISP <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
> > Subject: Problem with DNS stopping randomly.
> > Date: Thursday, March 05, 1998 12:59 PM
> >
> > We are having a problem with DNS randomly pausing then resuming.
> The
> > service is not stopping, it is just pausing, for about 30 seconds
> all
> the
> > way to 5 minutes, there are also no error messages in the event
> viewer.
> > Also, when this happens, there are no alarms or errors on any of our
>
> > hardware. Sometimes I can't even ping the IP of our mainserver when
>
> I am
> > sitting at it doing the pinging.
> >
> > We are running Microsoft DNS on a Pentium II 233 with 128 M of RAM,
> other
> > hardware includes a Computone Intelliserver PowerRack, a Cisco 1601
> Router
> > and an Adtran TSU/LT (CSU/DSU) If anyone has experienced this, or
> has a
> > possible solution please let me know.
> >
> > Beverly L. Wise
> > Systems Operator
> > Falls City Net Services
> > http://www.fallscity.net
> >
> >
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