question about "Assertion Failure" in BIND

Evan Hunt each at isc.org
Thu Mar 7 17:44:08 UTC 2019


On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 06:36:09PM +0800, 徐明杰 wrote:
> Hello all, I have some questions about "Assertion Failure" in BIND.  Most
> of the security advisories report that the security bugs can result in a
> assertion failure. I'm not familiar with event-driven programming
> paradigm, so I' not sure if every assertion failure can cause BIND to
> crash and is there any mechanism in BIND that can just drop the event
> which triggers an assertion failure and move on to other events?  Thanks.

An assertion failure is always a crash.

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Evan Hunt -- each at isc.org
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.


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