1.600: My named dies frequently, why?

Running on 3.2, named dies frequently on network's primary name server.


Try the following:

     stopsrc -s named		# stop running named
     setenv MALLOCTYPE 3.1	# use 3.1 memory allocation algorithm
     /etc/named ...		# don't use smit to start named

You might be able to use startsrc/smit after setting MALLOCTYPE and get
the same effect, but I'm not sure.

[According to John, the problem is malloc() in the named code. He
 also suggests using Berkeley's bind, which he has ported and can be
 ftp'ed from ftp://ftp.egr.duke.edu/archives/bind-4.8.3.tar.gz. -ed]

Two ptfs should fix this problem. Get U412332 and U414752.

Christophe Wolfhugel <Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr> reports
that bind 4.9 works fine on AIX 3.2 and without MALLOCTYPE=3.1.