bind crash with max-refresh-time 0;

[Miek Gieben]

[ Quoting <uhlar at fantomas.sk> at 13:32 on Feb  6 in "Re: bind crash with ..." ]
> >needed to go in production. (Sadly bind bugs aren't searchable on the
> >internet).
> >
> >So to work around this I thought: kill the SOA timers (messing with the
> >zone is not an option) and only use notifies. But then bind crashes :)
> 
> Are you sure that only xferring when NOTIFY is received will prevent
> from crashing when another NOTIFY is received during transfer
> triggered by one NOTIFY?
> I doubt so. In such case, better aproach should be disabling NOTIFY
> and only transferring when timers expire.

Yes, but that would introduce a long(er) latency we don't want.

> However, the best approach should be upgrading to 9.8 and/or trying
> to replicate the problem (using unstripped BIND with debug
> informations and inspecting core file).

I'm not going to debug this bind crash. Upgrading to BIND 9.8 is under
consideration, but not likely to happen soon.

Thanks.

grtz Miek
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