Named gets itself stuck in a loop in 2.1.19+

Brian Blackmore (bnb@looking-glass.org)
4 Jan 1997 23:52:07 -0000

Somewhere between 2.1.9 and 2.1.19 named seems to have decided to enter
a processor eating loop (in 2.1.9 ps rarely shows named as running, in
2.1.19 its running all the time). My network setup is as follows...

# Attach the loopback device.
/sbin/ifconfig lo localhost

# Attach an alias for gryphon's demon address
/sbin/ifconfig lo:0 gryphon.demon.co.uk

# Configure the ethernet card for the local network
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 gryphon.looking-glass.org

# Somewhere around 2.1.10 auto routing was added, thus we avoid adding routes
# on new kernels
case "`uname -r`" in
1.*|2.0.*|2.1.?)
/sbin/route add -net loopback
/sbin/route add gryphon.demon.co.uk
/sbin/route add -net looking ;;
*) ;;
esac

localhost is 127.0.0.1, gryphon.demon.co.uk is 158.152.42.76,
gryphon.looking-glass.org is 192.168.1.1, loopback is 127.0.0.1 and
looking is 192.168.1.0.

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Brian                                   http://www.wonderland.org/~eternal/