BIND 9.1.2 named failure timer.c falal error

[Juha Saarinen]

David W. Brown wrote:

> Hello Bind gurus, recently, I have been presented with an unusual
> problem. For 2 nights running I have found the named daemon not
> running. I have found the following error condition: the system time
> just before failure was set to an invalid date. The complete error
> condtion and messages follows. Does anyone have a solution to this
> problem? Would a complete update of BIND on the following OS help
> this vulnerabilty? What are some of the issues the may arise if I
> upgrade BIND? TIA, David.
> 
> OS: rh 7.2 KERNEL: 2.4.7-10 BIND: 9.1.3
> 
> Error condition and messages from named:
> 
> Dec 13 14:45:52 webitplanet named[25370]: timer.c:646: fatal error: 
> Dec 13 14:45:52 webitplanet named[25370]:
> RUNTIME_CHECK(isc_time_now(&now) == 0) failed Dec 13 14:45:52
> webitplanet named[25370]: exiting (due to fatal error in library) Fri
> Dec 13 20:58:56 CST 1901
> 


Upgrade both the OS and the version of BIND. You don't want to connect 
to today's Internet with out of date software.

-- 
Juha