At Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:18:52 -0500 (CDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >I believe 'rndc dumpdb' triggered the crash. We've recently fixed a >> >bug that can cause various types of crash triggered by 'rndc dumpdb'. >> >The fix will appear in 9.5.1b2. In the mean time, if you're >> >interested please try the patch available at: >> >http://www.jinmei.org/patch/rbtdb.c.diff >> >> Against what code base is this patch written? I tried to apply it to >> a 9.5.0-P2 source, and the patch command complained:
JINMEI Tatuya replied: >Sorry for the trouble. The diff was against the latest development >code (for 9.6). I didn't thought there was a critical difference >between the latest code and 9.5 version of rbtdb.c, but I seemed to be >wrong. I've updated the patch and put it at the same location: > >http://www.jinmei.org/patch/rbtdb.c.diff > >Please try this one. I have installed the patch along with -P2 on our hidden master. Before I installed the patch I tried "rndc dumpdb", but BIND did not crash. I assume that the records in the cache on a hidden master are not the type of records that cause a crash. I will install it on our other DNS servers later this week.
