Bug in bind 9.7.3?

David Sparro dsparro at gmail.com
Thu May 26 19:58:00 UTC 2011


On 5/26/2011 2:33 PM, Frank Kloeker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I using bind 9.7.3 as resolver in a slightly larger server farm with
> some mail servers that use domain key validation.
> If a try
>
> # host -t TXT _adsp._domainkey.federalreserve.gov
>
> bind dies with
>
> May 26 19:59:02 resolv04 named[8237]: buffer.c:285: REQUIRE(b->used + 1
> <= b->length) failed
> May 26 19:59:02 resolv04 named[8237]: exiting (due to assertion failure)
>
> This is reproducible and should only affected in 9.7.3. Can this be
> possible?
>
> kind regards
>
> Frank
>

I had some of my 9.7.2-P3 boxes die the same way as well.

dig txt _policy._domainkey.federalreserve.gov
will trigger the crash as well.

Not all of my systems seem to be affected, though.  Those that are seem 
to be 100% reproducible.


-- 
Dave



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