[Pdns-users] Re: Seriious bug with PowerDNS and sql server dropping.

[Radek Hladik]

You can read my older post to this list 
http://mailman.powerdns.com/pipermail/pdns-users/2004-August/001795.html 
or ticket http://ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/cvstrac/pdns/tktview?tn=11,4 . I also 
wrote small patch (it's included in message mentioned above) and I hove 
it will help you...

Radek Hladik

Evan Hoff wrote:
> Yes, I've noticed this too.  My setup includes placing the database on
> another machine (for load purposes).  I've noticed that if there is any
> hiccup on the database server (or a reboot), that pdns won't bring itself
> back online after the database is available again.  Pdns chokes until it is
> restarted.
> 
> It would be great if there were a workaround for this.
> 
> Evan
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com
> [mailto:pdns-users-bounces at mailman.powerdns.com] On Behalf Of Eric Renfro
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 4:55 AM
> To: pdns-users at mailman.powerdns.com
> Subject: [Pdns-users] Seriious bug with PowerDNS and sql server dropping.
> 
> I've noticed a serious bug with PowerDNS 2.9.16, at least using the 
> PostgreSQL connector.
> 
> If the PostgreSQL server PowerDNS is setup to connect to drops, reloads, 
> temporary loss of connection, etc, for whatever reason, PowerDNS looses 
> it's connection to the database, it stops completely. This is kind of a 
> fairly serious bug.
> 
> Another problem I found with PowerDNS is that if one were to send 
> /dev/urandom to a PowerDNS server, of a fairly large size, about 2-10mb 
> worth, powerdns will choke it up and fail. I found this out, because 
> someone had tried to do that to me, while I had bind running as a 
> front-end, and it never failed on me. But when I put PowerDNS in the 
> front, to handle it's zones, it bombed out completely, and fairly quickly.
> 
> Eric Renfro
> Myrddin Computers & Designs
> 
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