Bug ID 614788: zxfrd crash due to lack of disk space

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP DNS, LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.1.0

Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.3.1

Opened: Sep 07, 2016

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

It is possible that the zone transfer daemon (zxfrd) can crash if the /var disk partition fills up and zxfrd needs to increase the size of its database.

Impact

zxfrd may crash and restart. This process may repeat depending on the need for space on restart.

Conditions

DNS Express configured Full /var partition Changes to the zone database require more space to be allocated for zxfrd.

Workaround

Free up space in the /var partition.

Fix Information

zxfrd now correctly handles the out of space condition.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips