Hi Ben,

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 11:56:48PM +0000, Ben Bridges wrote:
> Unfortunately, when it comes to BIND, it leaves the users in a bit of a 
> precarious position.  If you run the bind9 package, you incur the ire of ISC 
> and the members of the BIND users forum (who chastise you for "running such 
> an old version of BIND" and just tell you to upgrade BIND) if you post issues 
> there.  If you use the ISC packages in their PPA repository, you can't get 
> any (or only limited) assistance from the Ubuntu developers.  As popular as 
> BIND is, it seems like it would be one of the packages that you would want to 
> update regularly from the upstream minor version releases.  But perhaps BIND 
> isn't run on Ubuntu as much as I think it might be.
> 
> Anyway, I'll try to file a bug report, but apport failed to create a core 
> dump (file size too large), and I suspect you won't be able to do much 
> without it.

It's often possible to look at it from the other end. If they've fixed
the problem in a point release, then we can look at their upstream
commits, find the relevant one, and cherry-pick it.

Robie

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