Died on assertion error

[Mark Andrews]

> I'm running 9.3.5 P2 on old Red Hat 7.3 server. BIND crashed today with
> the following:
> Aug 28 15:46:21 ns1 named[349]: mem.c:628: INSIST(((unsigned char
> *)mem)[size] == 0xbe) failed
> Aug 28 15:46:21 ns1 named[349]: exiting (due to assertion failure)
> 
> I started BIND again and it seems to be OK.
> I'm not a programmer, so I only know that this is not normal behavior :-)
> Is it a known issue, or do you need more info? This is a production
> machine so I can't start debugging but I'll provide what I can.

	If you have a core file and preferrably a non-stripped
	executable then please log a bug report to bind9-bugs at isc.org
	along with the location where these can be fetched from.

	We need to see the stack backtrace to have any idea about
	where to look for the problem.

	Mark
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