Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:26:48 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "Taylor Dondich" <thexder@lvcm.com>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: My horror story Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20020510102231.032de900@nospam.lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin>
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At 03:23 AM 5/10/2002, Taylor Dondich wrote: >Now, as I turned to my internal DNS server, I felt a shiver go >down my spine. The errors were different, fsck was complaining more, it >just wouldn't let me go through it. I didn't have enough experience in >fsck, my hands became sweaty, I wiped my brow with a Microsoft EULA, it was >getting late. > >After many attempts, all bearing no fruit, I lowered my head and said my >goodbyes. My server was gone. Alas, named keeps its data in /etc/namedb by default. This is (and probably shouldn't be; it's a legacy UNIX convention) on the root partition, which -- for some unfathomable reason -- does not have softupdates turned on in the FreeBSD default install. This maximizes the impact of a sudden power outage on a domain name server. --Brett Glass To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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