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  • DNS queries are timeout using bind in RHEL 5

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    I am having Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 with bind-9.3.6-25.P1.el5_11.12 installed , We have DNS service running on RHEL5 for domain resolution and we found multiple times nslookup was getting timed out from client , the bind named.conf was configured and it was working fine almost 5 years

    Now removing below from named conf file has resolved the issue


    logging {
            channel default_debug {
                    file "data/named.run";
                    severity dynamic;
            };
            channel my_file {
                     file "data/log.msgs";
                      severity dynamic;
            };
            channel my_syslog {
                     syslog daemon;
                     print-time no;
                     print-severity no;
                     print-category no;
            };
    

    ** I am still not able to find how the issue resolved by removing above line from logging and adding below to the logging **


    channel default_file {
            file "/var/log/named/default.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel general_file {
            file "/var/log/named/general.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel database_file {
            file "/var/log/named/database.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel security_file {
            file "/var/log/named/security.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel config_file {
            file "/var/log/named/config.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel resolver_file {
            file "/var/log/named/resolver.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel xfer-in_file {
            file "/var/log/named/xfer-in.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel xfer-out_file {
            file "/var/log/named/xfer-out.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel notify_file {
            file "/var/log/named/notify.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel client_file {
            file "/var/log/named/client.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel unmatched_file {
            file "/var/log/named/unmatched.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel queries_file {
            file "/var/log/named/queries.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel network_file {
            file "/var/log/named/network.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel update_file {
            file "/var/log/named/update.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel dispatch_file {
            file "/var/log/named/dispatch.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel dnssec_file {
            file "/var/log/named/dnssec.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        channel lame-servers_file {
            file "/var/log/named/lame-servers.log" versions 3 size 5m;
            severity dynamic;
            print-time yes;
        };
        category default { default_file; };
        category general { general_file; };
        category database { database_file; };
        category security { security_file; };
        category config { config_file; };
        category resolver { resolver_file; };
        category xfer-in { xfer-in_file; };
        category xfer-out { xfer-out_file; };
        category notify { notify_file; };
        category client { client_file; };
        category unmatched { unmatched_file; };
        category queries { queries_file; };
        category network { network_file; };
        category update { update_file; };
        category dispatch { dispatch_file; };
        category dnssec { dnssec_file; };
        category lame-servers { lame-servers_file; };
    

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