Re: ISC Bind crashes dialy, should I upgrade?

Vince De Mello <vince@microbotics.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello,

> Please forgive my ignorance but I am new to ISC bind.

> I have a Windows 2000 server running IIS5. Recently I noticed that our ISC
> Bind service kept stopping on a daily basis and had to be restarted.
> I noticed the following errors in my log file which occured at the moment of
> the crash.

> socket c:2230: fatal error:
> select() failed: Socket operation on non-socket
> exiting (due to fatal error in library)

> Can anyone shed any light on this?

It's fatal all right.

> I am also trying to figure out what version of ISC Bind I am running. Can
> somone please explain to me in simple terms how I can find this out?

First your OS ans version is interesting, usually the command
'uname -a' will reveal all needed information.

Then 'named -v' will ( for modern bind's) spit out a line or two :
> named -v
named 8.3.4-REL Thu Apr 3 08:26:42 GMT 2003
root@freebsd-stable.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/usr.sbin/named

or

> named -v
BIND 9.2.3


Older bind's might not tell us anything ( but in that case your really should
update)


> I suspect I may have to upgrade the ISC Bind software to the latest version.
> I have never done this before and would like to know what this involves and
> what risks are involved. I would like to keep any downtime to a minimum.
> Hopefully it is simply a case of running the self install application.

Most vendors has ready-made packages that you install the same way
as you install other software.

> Thanks in advance.

> Vince



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