BIND 8.2.5 abends

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Thu Apr 8 00:54:07 UTC 2004


>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Stevens <jstevens at vnet.ibm.com> writes:

    Jeff> Had a customer report 2 instances of the following as the
    Jeff> server abended: named[83]: panic: critical: ns_main.c:841:
    Jeff> INSIST(evRead(lev, rfd, &iov, 1, stream_getlen, sp,
    Jeff> &sp->evID_r) != -1): Bad file number failed.

    Jeff> Instances occurred at 14:37:53 and 14:37:47.  Lacking any
    Jeff> further detail, does this tell us anything?

Yes, your customer is running very old name server software. BIND
8.2.5 is well past its sell-by date. It has known security flaws.
The current version of BIND8 is 8.4.4. Upgrade. And if the problem
persists, file a bug report.




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