Server crash on receiving query

[James L. Brown]

For almost two weeks my instance of named has cause a reboot of the machine when it receives a query. Version 9.20.3.

24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.785 general: notice: starting BIND 9.20.3 (Stable Release) <id:1e2850e>
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.786 general: notice: running on Darwin arm64 23.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 23.6.0: Wed Jul 31 20:49:46 PDT 2024; root:xnu-10063.141.1.700.5~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.786 general: notice: built with  '--prefix=/opt/homebrew/Cellar/bind/9.20.3' '--sysconfdir=/opt/homebrew/etc/bind' '--localstatedir=/opt/homebrew/var' '--with-json-c' '--with-libidn2=/opt/homebrew/opt/libidn2' '--with-openssl=/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl at 3' '--without-lmdb' 'CC=clang' 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/homebrew/opt/jemalloc/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/json-c/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/libidn2/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/libnghttp2/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/libuv/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl at 3/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/readline/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/opt/userspace-rcu/lib/pkgconfig' 'PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/homebrew/Library/Homebrew/os/mac/pkgconfig/14'
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.787 general: notice: running as: named -n 7 -c /opt/homebrew/etc/named.conf -L /opt/homebrew/var/log/named/named.log
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.787 general: notice: compiled by CLANG Apple LLVM 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.788 general: notice: compiled with OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.788 general: notice: linked to OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.788 general: notice: compiled with libuv version: 1.49.1
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.789 general: notice: linked to libuv version: 1.49.2
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.789 general: notice: compiled with liburcu version: 0.14.1
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.790 general: notice: compiled with jemalloc version: 5.3.0
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.790 general: notice: compiled with libnghttp2 version: 1.63.0
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.791 general: notice: linked to libnghttp2 version: 1.64.0
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.791 general: notice: compiled with libxml2 version: 2.9.13
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.791 general: notice: linked to libxml2 version: 20913
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.792 general: notice: compiled with json-c version: 0.18
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.792 general: notice: linked to json-c version: 0.18
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.793 general: notice: compiled with zlib version: 1.2.12
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.793 general: notice: linked to zlib version: 1.2.12
...
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.796 general: notice: adjusted limit on open files from 2560 to 9223372036854775807
24-Oct-2024 17:02:40.797 general: info: found 8 CPUs, using 7 worker threads

I have an older server with name config file and zone files, and it runs fine. It’s running older version bind.

Server is an M1 Mac mini running Sonoma macOS 14.7.

The query can come from external or from ‘dig’ issued on that machine.

The computer runs fine until it receives the query - heaps of free RAM, disk space, CPU <20%, etc.

Any suggestions as to where to look? Nothing gets logged to named.log or my queries log file.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, James.