broken dnsservers

I am having problems with dnsservers blocking and refusing to do requests,
eventually to the point where I have to manually stop squid, then
individually kill off the dnsserver processes. Can somebody point me in
the right direction to help me find out what's wrong?

I know the name server is working, it has been for the past 12 months ...
but I do notice A LOT of lame servers and bad referrals that named logs.
 Is this BIND related??

Environment:

        PII-233 128mb 6.1g scsi running FreeBSD 2.2.6, Squid 1.1.20

Squid Config:

- no cache_host entries
- cache_mem 64
- cache_swap 2048
- cache_dns_program /usr/local/squid/bin/dnsserver
- dns_children 32
- dns_defnames off
- (any others you need to know?)

here is what cachemgr.cgi says:

DNSServer Statistics:
dnsserver requests: 5233
dnsserver replies: 9365
number of dnsservers: 32
dnsservers use histogram:
dnsserver #1: 364
dnsserver #2: 434
dnsserver #3: 264
dnsserver #4: 2572
dnsserver #5: 31
dnsserver #6: 29
dnsserver #7: 618
dnsserver #8: 62
dnsserver #9: 158
dnsserver #10: 562
dnsserver #11: 53
dnsserver #12: 75
dnsserver #13: 10
dnsserver #14: 1
dnsserver #15: 0
dnsserver #16: 0

etc...(the rest are 0)

dnsservers status:
dnsserver #1:
Flags: AB
FDs (in/out): 5/5
Alive since: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 10:41:18 GMT
Last Dispatched: 53330.738 seconds ago
Read Buffer Size: 4095 bytes
Read Offset: 0 bytes

dnsserver #2:
Flags: AB
FDs (in/out): 6/6
Alive since: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 10:41:18 GMT
Last Dispatched: 49334.377 seconds ago
Read Buffer Size: 4095
bytes Read Offset: 0 bytes

dnsserver #3:
Flags: AB
FDs (in/out): 7/7
Alive since: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 10:41:18 GMT
Last Dispatched: 50299.698 seconds ago
Read Buffer Size: 4095 bytes
Read Offset: 0 bytes

dnsserver #4:
Flags: AB
FDs (in/out): 8/8
Alive since: Sat, 04 Jul 1998 10:41:18 GMT
Last Dispatched: 2699.309 seconds ago
Read Buffer Size: 4095 bytes
Read Offset: 0 bytes

Etc...

If there is anymore info you need, please ask. TIA.
Received on Sat Jul 04 1998 - 19:39:01 MDT