From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 14 16:25: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BDDF37B415 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 16:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA09306; Fri, 10 May 2002 10:43:33 -0600 (MDT) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook may make your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20020510102231.032de900@nospam.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@nospam.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 10:26:48 -0600 To: "Taylor Dondich" , From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: My horror story In-Reply-To: <000701c1f804$47d5dc00$6401a8c0@penguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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