Hello everyone,
I have FreeBSD 8.1 release installed in my office for a few tasks. one of them is to serve as a local dns server. Yesterday I added a new record and tried to reload the db with rndc. however rndc did nothing (no error message, no information message) it just hanged. So I tried to restart the whole named service. but exactly the same thing happend. After digging around I found out that none of the bind96 binaries that had something to do with resolving (dig, host, nslookup, named) don't work and behave the same way - hang there indefinitely (no cpu or memory usage spikes or anything). I tried to recompile bind a few times, restored my configuration from backup, tried different (bind97 and bind98) versions - nothing seems to be working. Everything else on that server works fine (ldap, samba, mail server). Has anyone seen this behavior before? thanks for any help.
I have FreeBSD 8.1 release installed in my office for a few tasks. one of them is to serve as a local dns server. Yesterday I added a new record and tried to reload the db with rndc. however rndc did nothing (no error message, no information message) it just hanged. So I tried to restart the whole named service. but exactly the same thing happend. After digging around I found out that none of the bind96 binaries that had something to do with resolving (dig, host, nslookup, named) don't work and behave the same way - hang there indefinitely (no cpu or memory usage spikes or anything). I tried to recompile bind a few times, restored my configuration from backup, tried different (bind97 and bind98) versions - nothing seems to be working. Everything else on that server works fine (ldap, samba, mail server). Has anyone seen this behavior before? thanks for any help.
