From owner-freebsd-isp Fri May 1 09:53:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11001 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 09:53:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bofh.shmooze.net (markjr@bofh.shmOOze.net [205.210.42.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA10989 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 09:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from markjr@bofh.shmooze.net) Received: (from markjr@localhost) by bofh.shmooze.net (8.8.5/8.8.3) id MAA19408; Fri, 1 May 1998 12:53:15 -0400 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-beta-042198 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980501111807.00898290@veronet.net> Date: Fri, 01 May 1998 12:53:15 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: Stunt Pope Organization: Private World Communications From: Stunt Pope To: mmoran@veronet.net Subject: RE: Named disappeared Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 01-May-98 mmoran@veronet.net wrote: > Hi to all, > > Today, while I try to pick up my emails or check out other web sites. I > unable to reach there with their names like yahoo.com but able to reach > with IP addresses. > > I checked out my name server (currently use 'named') and found out there is > no 'named' show up on ps -x command. I re-boot it to start over again and > it's working now and 'named' showed up on ps command. > > How can this happened? Are there any reason(s) why the 'named' disappeared? > > Anyone who have same problem before? > > Thank you, A friend of mine has this problem in an unpredictable and ongoing basis, not on freeBSD, but on Solaris 2.5.1. I ended up writing a script for him that he runs out of crontab that checks every 15 mins and restarts named if it's dead. It may take a bit of tweaking but if you want it, I can fire you a copy. (Obviously the best solution is to figure out why it died and fix it, but if not...) -mark --- Mark Jeftovic aka: mark jeff or vic, stunt pope. markjr@shmOOze.net http://www.shmOOze.net/~markjr Private World's BOFH http://www.PrivateWorld.com irc: L-bOMb Keep `em Guessing To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message