[Pdns-users] Windows DB Re-connect

[bert hubert]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 12:58:48AM -0500, Rohit Agarwal wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been playing around with PowerDNS 2.9.6 for Windows (2000) using ODBC
> connecting to a mySQL server.
> 
> I've run into a problem where if the database is connected and I have X
> threads running, and kill a couple of them or create an artificial network
> problem that causes a disconnect, PDNS will die (but still listening on the
> sockets). I would assume that PDNS should keep trying to reconnect to the
> DB.

Don't do that. I'm amazed that PowerDNS remains up. This is not a valid way
of testing network problems.

> Other than this issue, are there any other known problems with the Windows
> port? Is the Windows port stable?

There are some sites with it in production, but most of our users are on
FreeBSD or Linux.

Regards,

bert

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