BIND 9.1.3 daemon dying

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri Aug 3 06:44:40 UTC 2001


> Hi
> 
> Yesterday morning, after many tests on a remote system, I upgraded our
> servers from 8.2.3 to 9.1.3. The upgrade went very smoothly.
> 
> However, yesterday afternoon, one of our primaries dies with the following
> message:
> 
> Aug 1 16:48:36 dns1lo /usr/local/sbin/named[29547]: [ID 866145 daemon.crit]
> rbtdb.c:735: INSIST(node->references !=0) failed

	Either a node reference counting leak (overflowed the 32 bit
	counter) or a locking bug with a threaded build.  A stack
	backtrace would be useful.

> 
> Aug 1 16:48:36 dns1lo /usr/local/sbin/named[29547]: [ID 866145 daemon.crit]
> exiting (due to assertion failure)
> 
> It has also happended again this morning, but this time on another system.
> 
> I noticed that this was reported in the ISC BIND9 users list, back in May,
> but then it was against 9.1.2. There didn't seem to be any responses to it
> though. Any idea what has caused this failure ?
> 
> There were no changes to existing or new records were being done that I can
> see.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
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